Mrs Royle Quotes

#1. That's all he said?' Mrs. Royle demanded.
'He's not one for lengthy explanations,' Honoria said.
'Powerful men do not explain their actions,' Cecily announced dramatically.

Julia Quinn

#2. I don't blame individuals, Elton, I blame myself

Joe Royle

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

Nicholas Royle

#4. 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.

Nicholas Royle

#5. I never know exactly where I'm going with a story, whether it's a short story or a novel. If I did I'd soon grow bored of it. The fun, for me, is in the finding out and the making sense of it.

Nicholas Royle

#6. 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.

Nicholas Royle

#7. 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.

Nicholas Royle

#8. We did not pass the ball ... we couldn't have found our front two with radar.

Joe Royle

#9. Belgium is a country with a split personality.

Nicholas Royle

#10. The value of this book lies in its heartfelt simplicity.

Jason E. Royle

#11. I'm not trying to write cinematic novels, but I have been told several times that my style is cinematic.

Nicholas Royle

#12. 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.

Nicholas Royle

#13. Real decisions are not something we can pick up without taking time to hunt for them.

Jason E. Royle

#14. I have no patience with up-themselves authors who complain about having to trail round a few bookshops signing stock.

Nicholas Royle

#15. 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.

Nicholas Royle

#16. I don't blame individuals, I blame myself.

Joe Royle

#17. 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.

Nicholas Royle

#18. Between the sands of time is a multitude of truths untold.

Jason E. Royle

#19. Your love, not your worry, is the most valuable thing any of us can give our children.

Jason E. Royle

#20. If it had gone in, it would have been a goal.

Joe Royle

#21. Duncan became a legend before he became a player at Everton.

Joe Royle

#22. Mario Balotelli is like Marmite, you either love him or hate him. Me? I'm in between.

Joe Royle

#23. I will be writing to the relevant authorities to complain, but I'm wasting my breath.

Joe Royle

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

Nicholas Royle

#25. 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.

Nicholas Royle

#26. I don't make promises, I promise results.

Joe Royle

#27. Every unmarried man is looking for a wife. They just don't always know it.

Julia Quinn

#28. I am interested in power and in the idea of one country exerting power over another. The Soviets took this to an extreme.

Nicholas Royle

#29. That was clearly a tackle aimed at getting revenge - or maybe it was just out-and-out retribution.

Joe Royle

#30. The trouble with Earl Barrett is that he's one paced ... Zooommmmm.

Joe Royle

#31. It wasn't one of my favorite boots, Marcus said, trying to cheer Miss Royle up. She looked as if someone had decapitated a puppy.

Julia Quinn

#32. I don't want to compare Bowditch to Matt Le Tissier, but the way he scored his goal was similar to Matt.

Joe Royle

#33. 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.

Nicholas Royle

#34. The uncanny is not a literary genre. But nor is it a non-literary genre. It overflows the very institution of literature. It inhabits, haunts, parasitizes the allegedly non-literary. It makes 'genre' blink.

Nicholas Royle