Quotes by : Tim Parks

What I’m suggesting then is that much of our response to novels may have to do with the kind of “system”....

He hams his Brummie accent, I tell myself, the way so many ex-pats ham their lost identity. The moustache....

But perhaps the greatest escapism of all is to take refuge in the domesticity of the past, the home that....

In any power game, it seems, the dominant party is the least likely to be aware of what is going on.

In general, when a novel manipulates its material to conform to the pieties of the day, or alternatively....

But whatever the exact psychology of the process {receiving recognition or literary success}, the present....

No one is treated with more patronizing condescension than the unpublished author or, in general, the....