William Nicholson Quotes

We read to know that we are not alone.

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn fast.

God creates us free, free to be selfish, but He adds a mechanism that will penetrate our selfishness and wake us up to the presence of others in this world, and that mechanism is called suffering.

I am as I am. The world is as it is. Whether I am content with that has very little to do with it.

A well-off plastic surgeon can suffer just as much as an Irish lad who has been abused or whatever.

I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time- waking and sleeping. It doesn't change God- it changes me.

The English seem to think drinking wine is like committing adultery, something you do rarely and abroad.

My study is a converted garage which is largely lined with bookshelves and cardboard boxes filled with manuscripts of my film scripts, plays and books.

Everyone deserves to be the hero of a novel.

We read to know we're not alone.

Self-sufficiency is the enemy of salvation. If you are self-sufficient, you have no need of God. If you have no need of God, you do not seek Him. If you do not seek Him, you will not find Him.

We write to know we are not alone

He accepted what each moment brough him, and never troubled himself with matters that were outside his control.

If you die, I'll die.' 'But is you live, I'll live.' - Bowman and Kestrel, Firesong

Use your power gently.

Why should I be honored? Don't I have enough attention, comfort and power already?

There is this notion that the lives of the comfortable-off middle class don't merit being treated seriously and with compassion.

There are dozens of great American writers who write about the family.

When I began to write seriously, 40 years ago now, my chosen form was the novel.

We are the slaves of slaves