32 Quotes by Stephen McCauley

I loved Victoria Glendinning's bio of Vita Sackville-West. I also loved Michael Holroyd's immense biography of Lytton Strachey.

The experience of writing under a pseudonym was tremendously liberating; I could write what I wanted.

I wish I could calculate my way to a bigger audience, but I don't think I'm smart enough. Actually, I don't think anyone is smart enough. Most calculations along those lines fail.

It's really fun to write something for kids. You can make it a little bit more extreme and crazy than you would for adults.

It's hard to describe the work of the British-born Australian writer Elizabeth Jolley without somewhat misrepresenting it.