To say a poem is absolute is saying nothing, because an ink blot can be absolute. Yet you put into it what you like. So it becomes totally relative.
- Nicholas Mosley
Nothing, Like, Ink, Blot
The mark of a living thing is to be involved in opposites (impossibilities): the living cell that has to be continually adapting itself to stay alive, with its identity.
- Nicholas Mosley
Living, Alive, Living Thing, Adapting
Not only the style, but the way in which you don't exactly know what on earth has happened or is happening till about page two hundred - then it all becomes apparent in a blinding flash.
- Nicholas Mosley
Which, Hundred, Till, Flash
It always strikes me how almost unbelievably bad are the early versions of my novels.
- Nicholas Mosley
Bad, How, Always, Novels
After these three novels I gave up writing novels for a time; I was dissatisfied with romantic doom, yet didn't see much way around it.
- Nicholas Mosley
Three, Doom, Dissatisfied, Novels
There is curiously little art concerning the efficacy of reason - perhaps simply because reason is not noticeably efficacious.
- Nicholas Mosley
Art, Reason, Perhaps, Concerning
I did not think much what I was writing them for, except that I knew I wanted my next novel to be in some less conventional form than straight narrative.
- Nicholas Mosley
Think, Next, Some, Conventional
I don't think I've ever read an old book through from start to finish. Not after more than six months after writing it, that is.
- Nicholas Mosley
Think, Through, Read, Finish
If they tell the police, the police will find out she was driving, and her career will be put into hell.
- Nicholas Mosley
Career, Will, Tell, Driving
It connects with the theologians' point that you can say what God is not, but not (easily) what He is.
- Nicholas Mosley
Say, Theologians, Easily, Connects
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