Nicholas Mosley Quotes
"There is curiously little art concerning the efficacy of reason - perhaps simply because reason is not noticeably efficacious."
- Nicholas Mosley
(Related: Art, Reason)
"The mark of a living thing is to be involved in opposites (impossibilities): the living cell that has to be continually adapting itself to stay alive, with its identity."
- Nicholas Mosley
(Related: Identity, Living, Opposites)
"Not only the style, but the way in which you don't exactly know what on earth has happened or is happening till about page two hundred - then it all becomes apparent in a blinding flash."
- Nicholas Mosley
(Related: Earth, Style)
"It always strikes me how almost unbelievably bad are the early versions of my novels."
- Nicholas Mosley
"If they tell the police, the police will find out she was driving, and her career will be put into hell."
- Nicholas Mosley
(Related: Career, Driving, Hell, Police, Will)
"I don't think I've ever read an old book through from start to finish. Not after more than six months after writing it, that is."
- Nicholas Mosley
(Related: Months, Old, Writing)
"I did not think much what I was writing them for, except that I knew I wanted my next novel to be in some less conventional form than straight narrative."
- Nicholas Mosley
(Related: Writing)
"After these three novels I gave up writing novels for a time; I was dissatisfied with romantic doom, yet didn't see much way around it."
- Nicholas Mosley
(Related: Time, Romantic, Writing)
"It connects with the theologians' point that you can say what God is not, but not (easily) what He is."
- Nicholas Mosley
(Related: God)