Robert Nye Quotes

The old, endless, approachable and always answering Sorrow, says my father Lucifer. For who calls on me never goes unanswered. Only prayers to God go without answers.

The old, endless, approachable and always answering Sorrow, says my father Lucifer. For who calls on me never goes unanswered. Only prayers to God go without answers.

Robert Nye

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My father was a man of iron will. He had a red beard and eyes like caves. He married my mother sensibly for the triple joy of her widowhood, the three estates, but he was concerned - as an English cou...

Robert Nye

My father was a man of iron will. He had a red beard and eyes like caves. He married my mother sensibly for the triple joy of her widowhood, the three estates, but he was concerned - as an English cou...

Robert Nye

About Author

Robert Nye FRSL (15 March 1939 – 2 July 2016) was an English poet and author. His bestselling novel Falstaff, published in 1976, was described by Michael Ratcliffe (writing in The Times) as "one of the most ambitious and seductive novels of the decade", and went on to win both The Hawthornden Prize and Guardian Fiction Prize. The novel was also included in Anthony Burgess's 99 Novels: The Best in English Since 1939 (1984).