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
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 That was depression: being stuck, clinging to an out-of-date version of oneself.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.
believe people dying
It seems people spend the majority of their lives believing they're dying, with the only consolation being that at one point they get to be right.
writing attractive-things difficult
Well, the attractive thing about the subject of happiness is that it is notoriously difficult to write.
laughter thinking horror
I think that some laughter comes from escaped horror, doesn't it?
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.
together use conversation
It's no use imagining that bringing great writers together inevitably precipitates great conversation.
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.
new-york book adorable
The first book I fell in love with was 'Little Toot,' the story of an adorable tugboat operating out of New York Harbor.
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.
reading hero intelligent
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.
people suffering care
People never remeber happiness with the care that they lavish on preserving every detail of their suffering.
book reading people
I'm really not responsible for what mental operation people have when they're reading my books other than the ones which are created by literary effects.
writing want favour
I see the author as the person who has written; the writer, the one involved in the process of writing. And they're not necessarily friends. The writer is the one I want to reinforce; the author would just feed on the reviews - so I'm in favour of starving him.