Nicholas Royle Quotes

• 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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  Writing, Past, Poetry

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• The idea that a student can write a sonnet or a novel without having a sound understanding about its history, and where it fits into literature as a whole, seems to me to be manifestly daft.

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  Writing, Ideas, Poetry

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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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  Escribir, Estilo, Intentar

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• What the short story needs above all is for one of the big publishers to get an equivalent series up and running and to support it and promote it.

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  Running, Support, Needs

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• Belgium is a country with a split personality.

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  Country, Personality, Splits

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• Nunca sé exactamente adónde voy con una historia, ya sea un relato corto o una novela. Si lo supiera, pronto me aburriría. Para mí, lo divertido es descubrirlo y darle sentido.

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  Fun, Bored, Stories

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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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  Complaining, Trails, No Patience

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• I always have lots of zany ideas for promotional stuff as publication nears.

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  Ideas, Stuff, Publication

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• There has been corruption in the Belgian civil service and at government level for decades. The Royal family do what they can to hold things together, and they don't do a bad job.

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  Jobs, Government, Together

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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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  Ideas, Encounters, Fiction

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• I was interested in the ways that artists responded to totalitarianism - the Czech Jazz Section, Romanian absurdist theatre, Brecht's alienation effect. The anything-goes, anarchic qualities of jazz and Surrealism seemed to offer a way to cross some of the forbidden frontiers of Eastern Europe.

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  Artist, Europe, Theatre

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• I was particularly drawn to Berlin because of its literal, concrete division. Two halves making a whole, or two entities that were altered doubles of each other? Twins that had been separated and kept in neighbouring houses and raised according to different sets of rules as a social experiment? It was irresistible as a metaphor for division in the mind, for a split personality.

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  Two, House, Personality

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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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  Country, Ideas, Extremes

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• The Belgians tend to downplay the cultural divide issue, and the far-right issue, but there's a staggering degree of casual racism in Belgium, much worse than in the UK.

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  Issues, Racism, Degrees

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• I've written over 100 short stories. You could say I'm obsessed with short stories.

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  Stories, Obsessed, Short Story

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• Me encanta la escritura experimental, cuando es buena, y es mucho más probable encontrar buenos ejemplos en la forma breve.

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  Writing, Example, Form

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• I only like naturalistic stories. I love short, fantastic stories that cast a spell over the reader, that transport you instantly to another place with another set of rules, somewhere imagined by someone else.

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  Short Love, Stories, Fantastic

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• Who was it recently invented some machine that will enable her to sign a book from 5,000 miles away? Margaret Atwood. Get off your arse, love, and sign it in person. Publishers and circumstance made you a bestselling author. Give a little back.

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  Book, Giving, Littles

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