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I think every first-person narrator in a novel should be compromised. I prefer that word to 'unreliable.'

~Charles Palliser

Topics: Compromised Every First-Person Narrator Novel Prefer Should Think Unreliable Word I Think

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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.

~Charles Palliser

Topics: Doing Interesting Leap Make Novel Otherwise Unknown Unsure Want Worth Write Writing I Can

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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.

~Charles Palliser

Topics: Before Complete Could Done Had Knew Length Me Never Novel Only Pointless Repeating Something Specific Time Wanted Within Would Write

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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.

~Charles Palliser

Topics: Bath Century Existence Grandmother Live Living Rather Someone Sort Thought Trying War Way Who 19Th Century

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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.

~Charles Palliser

Topics: Better Chapter Devoted End Fiction Lull Reader Right Then Thinking Thought Too Victorian Way Work Would Wrongs

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Victorian values meant brutalizing people who were often poor.

~Charles Palliser

Topics: Meant Often People Poor Values Victorian Were Who

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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.

~Charles Palliser

Topics: Another Book Hideous Intrigued Notion Quite Rather Related Word

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: December 11th, 1947

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