Nicholas Royle Quotes
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Belgium is a country with a split personality.
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The short story feels like the most natural length for prose fiction, or certainly for the kind of ideas and situations I like to encounter.
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I have no patience with up-themselves authors who complain about having to trail round a few bookshops signing stock.
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I always have lots of zany ideas for promotional stuff as publication nears.
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I've written over 100 short stories. You could say I'm obsessed with short stories.
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I am interested in power and in the idea of one country exerting power over another. The Soviets took this to an extreme.
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Increasingly, those who used to teach and write critical or theoretical texts are writing fiction, poetry and so on; and kinds of texts are being produced that call for budding readers rather different from those who studied literature in the past.
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I'm not trying to write cinematic novels, but I have been told several times that my style is cinematic.
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I never know exactly where I'm going with a story, whether it's a short story or a novel. If I did I'd soon grow bored of it. The fun, for me, is in the finding out and the making sense of it.
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I love experimental writing, when it's good, and good examples are much more likely to be found in the short form.