Charles Palliser
Charles Palliser
Charles Palliseris a best-selling novelist, American-born but British-based. His most well-known novel, "The Quincunx", has sold over a million copies internationally. He is the elder brother of the late author and freelance journalist Marcus Palliser...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth11 December 1947
CountryUnited States of America
chapter devoted lull reader victorian work wrongs
In Victorian fiction, there would be a chapter at the end devoted to righting all of the wrongs. I thought to right all of the wrongs would be too glib. I thought it would be better to lull the reader into thinking that is the way it would work, but then not to do that.
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I'm quite intrigued by the notion of a book that is completely self-contained but related to another book. I've coined a rather hideous word for it - a paraquel.
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Living with my grandmother in Bath, I sort of thought I was living in the 19th century. My grandmother was someone who, in a way, was rather defiantly trying to live a pre-World War I existence.
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For me, it would be pointless to write a novel that I knew I could complete within a specific length of time. I could do that only by repeating something I had done before, and I've never wanted to do that.
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To make it interesting and worth doing, writing a novel has to be a leap into the unknown. I have to be unsure if I can write it; otherwise, I won't want to.
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Victorian values meant brutalizing people who were often poor.
thinking firsts narrators
I think every first-person narrator in a novel should be compromised. I prefer that word to unreliable.
betrayed virtue betray
To exist is to be betrayed, since we exist for others only by virtue of what we betray of ourselves to them.