“I'd been writing fiction for 50 years, since I was 19. And when you wr...” — Melvyn Bragg Quote

“I'd been writing fiction for 50 years, since I was 19. And when you write fiction, it becomes a way of thinking: there's always a novel around. The strange thing was that after 'Remember Me,' there wasn't.”

“Britain is undoubtedly becoming more cultural. No question of it. People who say it is dumbing down simply don't look around enough. They don't know enough.”

“You ask 20 of your friends how English and American democracy came about. None of them would say that Anglicanism or Protestantism had anything to do with it. But it was crucial to it!”

“I took two years away from making films to write a novel.”

“Before trying a novel I wrote a couple of plays.”

“I'm never doing a long novel again, truly.”