“ There are a lot of ways for a novelist to create suspense, but also really only two: one a trick, one an art. Charles Finch
“ The Bodleian above anything else made Oxford what it was . . . There was something incommunicably grand about it, something difficult to understand unless you had spent your evenings there or walked p… Charles Finch
“ The river was glossy, narrow, and quick, a beautiful green color, with the white and maroon striped college punts strung along the near bank. .... The sun, westering, heavy, and hazy, was in those gre… Charles Finch
“ To me, the single biggest mark of the amateur writer is a sense of hurry.Hurry to finish a manuscript, hurry to edit it, hurry to publish it. It’s definitely possible to write a book in a month, leave… Charles Finch
“ I personally find that having a couple of projects going at once can be an aid to focus, refreshing my brain as I go back and forth between them – a book review and a novel at the same time, for examp… Charles Finch
“ If you look for endings you can always find one, but I truly felt as if I had used up the last of my youth, if youth is that finite stage of life when it all feels expeditionary, inexact. Charles Finch
“ When you're finally a grown-up, one of the things you find is that there are no grown-ups. Charles Finch
“ The truth was that I didn't know my own mind. Just as you might move into a house and in the scatterbrained days of unpacking leave a broom in some corner, where it remains until someone uses it and t… Charles Finch
“ There's nowhere that life feels more eternal, your dimwit youth more important, than Paris. Charles Finch
“ Suddenly Dallington burst into speech. 'Listen, Lenox - I want to apologize...'Lenox waved a dismissive hand. 'You're young,' he said. 'There are many lessons before you, some harder than this one...… Charles Finch
“ The Thames was beautiful, dark, and swift beneath the billion yellow and white lights of the city… Charles Finch
“ I guess the lesson is you can’t go everywhere. You should still go everywhere you can. Charles Finch
“ Of course, that’s one of the dreams of modernist literature, whether realist or fantastic: that the more stories we tell each other about such tragedies, the fewer of them there will be. We’re still w… Charles Finch
“ If there’s a single idea I emphasize when people ask about writing, it’s that there’s no right way to produce a book. But I do think that whatever you do, you should do regularly, whether it’s waking… Charles Finch
“ There are a lot of ways for a novelist to create suspense, but also really only two: one a trick, one an art.The trick is to keep a secret. Or many secrets, even. In Lee Child’s books, Jack Reacher al… Charles Finch
“ Are you going to give a speech?' she asked gaily.He gave a choked laugh. 'Of course not,' he said. 'Not for ages.''My cousin Davey gave one on his very first day!' ...'In the Lords, I remember. It was… Charles Finch
“ He often envied people who hadn't read his favourite books. They had such happiness before them. Charles Finch
