Quotes by : Charles Finch

Like everyone I slipped into adulthood like a delinquent through the back door.

There's nowhere that life feels more eternal, your dimwit youth more important, than Paris.

‎He often envied people who hadn't read his favourite books. They had such happiness before them.

To me, the single biggest mark of the amateur writer is a sense of hurry.Hurry to finish a manuscript,....

Are you going to give a speech?' she asked gaily.He gave a choked laugh. 'Of course not,' he said. 'Not....

Of course, that’s one of the dreams of modernist literature, whether realist or fantastic: that the....

The Bodleian above anything else made Oxford what it was . . . There was something incommunicably grand....

The river was glossy, narrow, and quick, a beautiful green color, with the white and maroon striped college....

I personally find that having a couple of projects going at once can be an aid to focus, refreshing my....

There are a lot of ways for a novelist to create suspense, but also really only two: one a trick, one....