"Art is a hideously painful business, you know. Pity me! Or at least buy me a drink."

"I won't be happy until I'm up there, receiving the Nobel Prize."

"A prize with money attached to it has a lot of prestige."

"I am hugely insecure and desperate to be loved and I want my reader to adore me, to a disturbing, stalkerish degree."

"I've been haunting bookshops and hiding behind display signs of TV chefs (Nigella is excellent to hide behind as she …"

"For power and place men may intrigue; but in order to have influence they must more or less deserve it. Power may, at…"

"... I liked teaching math best because I don’t have a natural way with figures and therefore had sympathy with the ch…"

"You have to walk to get to know a city; it was then — in the Dublin of the 1940s — that I first discovered that. was …"

"... The way I think I write is by creating the actual raw material of fiction first of all, rather rapidly, very quic…"

"Trevor won many honors, including the of the for “Angels at the Ritz and Other Stories”; the Prize for literature and…"