Madly, futilely, I wrote novel after novel, eight in all, that failed to find a publisher. I persisted because for me the novel was the supreme literary form: not just one among many, not a relic of the past, but the way we communicate to one another the subtlest truths about this business of living.
William NicholsonThere is this notion that the lives of the comfortable-off middle class don't merit being treated seriously and with compassion.
William NicholsonA well-off plastic surgeon can suffer just as much as an Irish lad who has been abused or whatever.
William NicholsonMadly, futilely, I wrote novel after novel, eight in all, that failed to find a publisher. I persisted because for me the novel was the supreme literary form: not just one among many, not a relic of the past, but the way we communicate to one another the subtlest truths about this business of living.
William Nicholson