Brian Moore

“Loneliness is the great poverty.”

“Fame is a form of incomprehension, perhaps the worst.”

“The book itself is a curious beast, not flesh and blood, but singing thoughts on paper.”

“A man's life is his work. And if his work be ridiculous, what then is his life?”

“The past is not a package one can lay away.”

“Memory is a form of fiction.”

“In the end, it is my belief that the writer's only real territory is the human heart.”

“Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.”

“A man is the sum of his memories. A man's memory is his reality.”

“If one could write without a moral point of view, it would be a triumph, a tour de force. But it’s impossible.”

“The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.”

“In every novel, the author is playing a role, just as the characters are.”