Quotes by Charles Finch

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Charles Finch is an American author and literary critic, notable for his series of mystery novels set in Victorian era England.
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Her strength was in the integrity of her actions; she never compromised what she believed she ought to do.

Charles Finch

When you're finally a grown-up, one of the things you find is that there are no grown-ups.

Charles Finch

The truth was that I didn't know my own mind. Just as you might move into a house and in the scatterbrained days of unpacking leave a broom in some corner, where it remains until someone uses it and then returns it to that corner, now knowing that it...

Charles Finch

Like everyone I slipped into adulthood like a delinquent through the back door.

Charles Finch

If you look for endings you can always find one, but I truly felt as if I had used up the last of my youth, if youth is that finite stage of life when it all feels expeditionary, inexact.

Charles Finch

The Thames was beautiful, dark, and swift beneath the billion yellow and white lights of the city…

Charles Finch

The two things, love and snow, that make the world look fresh again

Charles Finch

There's nowhere that life feels more eternal, your dimwit youth more important, than Paris.

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The river was glossy, narrow, and quick, a beautiful green color, with the white and maroon striped college punts strung along the near bank. .... The sun, westering, heavy, and hazy, was in those great final throes of energy before the sky whitens a...

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I thought, too, about time. How fleet it is, and how certain, and like death how indifferent to our commentary upon it. Once not long before we had been boys and girls, and soon we would be middle-aged, thickening with rueful pleasure toward the thin...

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There is nobody as hopelessly vulgar as a British aristocrat...

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‎'He often envied people who hadn't read his favourite books. They had such happiness before them.

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The Bodleian above anything else made Oxford what it was . . . There was something incommunicably grand about it, something difficult to understand unless you had spent your evenings there or walked past it on the way to celebrate the boat race, a ma...

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Are you going to give a speech?' she asked gaily. He gave a choked laugh. 'Of course not,' he said. 'Not for ages.' 'My cousin Davey gave one on his very first day!' ... 'In the Lords, I remember. It was about how he didn't like strawberry jam.' 'Be ...

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If there’s a single idea I emphasize when people ask about writing, it’s that there’s no right way to produce a book. But I do think that whatever you do, you should do regularly, whether it’s waking up at midnight and drinking vodka or wakin...

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There are a lot of ways for a novelist to create suspense, but also really only two: one a trick, one an art. The trick is to keep a secret. Or many secrets, even. In Lee Child’s books, Jack Reacher always has a big mystery to crack, but there are ...

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I personally find that having a couple of projects going at once can be an aid to focus, refreshing my brain as I go back and forth between them – a book review and a novel at the same time, for example. But I’ve seen that writers who are startin...

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Of course, that’s one of the dreams of modernist literature, whether realist or fantastic: that the more stories we tell each other about such tragedies, the fewer of them there will be. We’re still waiting for the results.

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I guess the lesson is you can’t go everywhere. You should still go everywhere you can.

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Author Bio

  • NameCharles Finch
  • Descriptionnovelist from the United States
  • Born1980
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionNovelist