10+ Simon Mawer Quotes And Sayings

Following is our list of the best Simon Mawer quotes and sayings.

Grief and guilt. A powerful combination. Guilt like a liquid, a thin liquor, seeping everywhere, informing everything, saturating the whole-corrosive, like seawater, scented with the rich stench of ordure and corruption, and carrying with it hard, abrasive shards of grief. — Simon Mawer

I was a boarding school product from the age of eight, and I hated it. Though I do have a theory that boarding school is good training for writers because its so desperately lacking in privacy: you make space for yourself by having an interior life. — Simon Mawer

Sometimes I think that novelists suffer from P.C.S.: Perpetual Childhood Syndrome. — Simon Mawer

The speed of the human mind is remarkable. So is its inability to face the obvious. — Simon Mawer

Most of those people who saw themselves as literary types at university became bank managers. — Simon Mawer

Faith is the enemy of discovery. — Simon Mawer

You can tell nothing from a man's appearance, nothing except the depths of your own prejudice. — Simon Mawer

If God resides anywhere ... surely he shelters behind barricades of pure chance. — Simon Mawer

Sin is absence of God. Nothing more, nothing less. — Simon Mawer

When you look around now we have the war on terror. Yes, okay, the World Trade Center was sort of like a single act of war, but nothing else has been. We've turned it into war. We're talking about a bunch of semi-lunatic, fanatic criminals. That's the way they should be treated. — Simon Mawer