Simon Mawer
Simon Mawer
Simon Maweris a British author who lives in Italy...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionAuthor
dictated time
Only occasionally do I read new fiction. Most of my reading is heavily dictated by what I'm writing at the time.
busy cliffs climbing heard island itself sea sheer spent utterly village wonderful year
Guernsey itself was overcrowded, but its cliffs were utterly empty. I spent a wonderful year with a friend, climbing them. It was sheer magic: you went from this pretty, busy village of an island to the sea cliffs and heard nothing but the gulls and the waves.
blank novelist pundits
Pundits always have something to write about; the novelist just has a blank screen.
novelists perpetual
Sometimes I think that novelists suffer from P.C.S.: Perpetual Childhood Syndrome.
people saws type
Most of those people who saw themselves as literary types at university became bank managers.
sin absence
Sin is absence of God. Nothing more, nothing less.
mind inability denial
The speed of the human mind is remarkable. So is its inability to face the obvious.
shelter chance barricades
If God resides anywhere ... surely he shelters behind barricades of pure chance.