4 Quotes & Sayings By Philip Hensher

Philip Hensher is one of the most acclaimed British novelists of our time. He won the Man Booker Prize in 2014 and was named a recipient of France's Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. His novels have been translated into several languages and he has also published two collections of short stories and two novels for children. His second novel The Redress of Time won the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award in 2012, and his latest novel, The Grace of Kings, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2016 Read more

Hensher has been a member of the Royal Society of Literature since 2007 and lives in London.

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It happened to some people, that obsession with throwing their clothes off at an age when it would be best to keep them on. Philip Hensher
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I think you can tell when you meet someone whether they read novels. There's some hollowness if they don't. Philip Hensher
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It [fiction] allows us to see the world from the point of view of someone else and there has been quite a lot of neurological research that shows reading novels is actually good for you. It embeds you in society and makes you think about other people. People are certainly better at all sorts of things if they can hold a novel in their heads. It is quite a skill, but if you can't do it then you're missing out on something in life. I think you can tell, when you meet someone, whether they read novels or not. There is some little hollowness if they don't. Philip Hensher