Since Einstein developed his theory of relativity, and Rutherford and Bohr revolutionised physics, our picture of the world has radically changed.

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  'In Memoriam' has been my companion for all my grownup life.

• A. N. Wilson:

  Tennyson seems to be the patron saint of the wishy washies, which is perhaps why I admire him so mu

• A. N. Wilson:

  Truth comes to us mediated by human love.

• A. N. Wilson:

  The United States is the ultimate land of optimistic promise, but it also gave birth to quintessent

• A. N. Wilson:

  Nearly all monster stories depend for their success on Jack killing the Giant, Beowulf or St. Georg

• A. N. Wilson:

  I had lost faith in biography.

• A. N. Wilson:

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

• A. N. Wilson:

  I don't write books inadvertently.

• A. N. Wilson:

  Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.

• A. N. Wilson:

  Anti-Semitism is extremely common.