Charles Palliser
Novelist
1947-12-11
Books by Charles Palliser
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The Quincunx
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Betrayals
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The unburied
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Quotes by Charles Palliser
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I think every first-person narrator in a novel should be compromised. I prefer that word to 'unreliable.'
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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.
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Victorian values meant brutalizing people who were often poor.
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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.
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