153 Quotes by A. N. Wilson

I once asked Lady Moseley what she found so beguiling about Hitler’s conversation. ‘Oh, the jokes’, she said at once.

I’m not saying all publishers have to be literary, but some interest in books would help.

I do not find it easy to articulate thoughts about religion. I remain the sort of person who turns off ‘Thought for the Day’ when it comes on the radio.

If you know somebody is going to be awfully annoyed by something you write, that’s obviously very satisfying, and if they howl with rage or cry, that’s honey.

I think that if you can’t be loyal to the Church, it’s best to get out.

Hitler suffered acutely from meteorism; perhaps he did not suffer so acutely as those around him, since meteorism is uncontrolled farting, a condition exacerbated by Hitler’s strictly vegetarian diet.

I’m like Jane Austen – I work on the corner of the dining table.

I don’t think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That’s why people write novels.

My belief has come about in large measure because of the lives and examples of people I have known – not the famous, not saints, but friends and relations who have lived, and faced death, in the light of the Resurrection story, or in the quiet acceptance that they have a future after they die.