Edward St Aubyn
Edward St Aubyn
Edward St Aubynis an English author and journalist. He is the author of eight novels. In 2006, Mother's Milk was nominated for the Booker prize...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth14 January 1960
giving-up mean two
Irony is the hardest addiction of all. Forget heroin. Just try giving up irony, the deep-down need to mean two things at once, to be in two places at once, not to be there for the catastrophe of a fixed meaning.
impossible novel feels
The thing about the 'Melrose' novels is that I have to feel they're impossible when I set out.
ideas telling-the-truth series
The whole 'Melrose' series is an attempt to tell the truth, and is based on the idea that there is some salutary or liberating power in telling the truth.
winning heavyweights world
The Booker 2011 is of no more interest to me than the world heavyweight championship, which I'm not going to win either. It's irrelevant.
trying facts dramatic
I'm not trying to uncover the facts of my life but to discover the dramatic truth of the situations I was in.
usual clinging stuck
Everything was usual. That was depression: being stuck, clinging to an out-of-date version of oneself.
giving
You can only give things up once they start to let you down.