The Murdstone Trilogy Quotes

“Writers no longer work in solitude, crafting meaningful and elegant prose. No. They have to spend most of their time selling themselves on the fucking internet. Blogging and tweeting and updating their bloody Facebook pages and their wretched narcissistic websites.”
― Mal Peet, The Murdstone Trilogy

“Philip Murdstone sat considering the phrase ‘depths of despair’. Its plural implied that there were, even now, levels of it he had yet to experience.”
― Mal Peet, The Murdstone Trilogy

“I hate Tolkien. I mean. Bloody pretentious escapist nonsense, isn’t it?”
― Mal Peet, The Murdstone Trilogy

“Gone are the days when you simply write a jolly good book and wait for the queues to form. Readers need to be friended, darling. They need to be subscribers. They need to be followers.”
― Mal Peet, The Murdstone Trilogy

“Fluke me, Murdstone.”
― Mal Peet, The Murdstone Trilogy

“As much use as tits on a fish.”
― Mal Peet, The Murdstone Trilogy

“The view from here was lovely, constant, and never the same. Somehow, it was always sympathetic to his mood.”
― Mal Peet, The Murdstone Trilogy

“The screen filled with a pure and simple blue in which a few black pixels floated.”
― Mal Peet, The Murdstone Trilogy

“But he knew, for example, that the things at the ends of his legs were his feet and that if he chose to waggle them, they would waggle. There they went. He knew that if he wanted to he could go to the kitchen and make a cup of tea and not get lost. So he did.”
― Mal Peet, The Murdstone Trilogy

“Philip managed a reasonably good impersonation of British POW ignoring a flesh wound.”
― Mal Peet, The Murdstone Trilogy

“I can’t write that dreadful hobbity stuff. I just simply... can’t.”
― Mal Peet, The Murdstone Trilogy