Edward St Aubyn Quotes

Edward St Aubyn — British Author born on January 14, 1960,

Edward St Aubyn is an English author and journalist. He is the author of eight novels. In 2006, Mother's Milk was nominated for the Booker prize... (wikipedia)

Detachment is what interests me, seeing how people couldn't have been any other way, how they were the product of forces that they had no control over.

Proust is a hero of mine. I read 'A la recherche' in one go, and I'm a very slow reader. It had an astonishing impact, reading it on my own and being my main company. I think Proust is the most intelligent person to ever have written a novel.

I'm not trying to uncover the facts of my life but to discover the dramatic truth of the situations I was in.

I think that some laughter comes from escaped horror, doesn't it?

Well, the attractive thing about the subject of happiness is that it is notoriously difficult to write.