Adam Foulds Quotes

United Kingdom, Poet
October 8, 1974

Adam Samuel James Foulds FRSL is a British novelist and poet. Foulds was educated at Bancroft's School, read English at St Catherine's College, Oxford under Craig Raine, and graduated with an MA in creative writing from the University of East Anglia in 2001.

Also known as Novelist

She wanted to stay out there, to hang on her branch in the world until the cold had burned down to her bones. She could leave her whitened bones scattered on the snow and depart like light. Whitened bones. A whited sepulcher.

Adam Foulds
- World
- Stay
- Branch
The world is a room of heavy furniture. Eventually you are allowed to leave.

Adam Foulds
- World
- Room
- Furniture

I am not a book collector, and I am not fussy about particular editions. As long as the words are there I don't mind.

Adam Foulds
- Book
- Words
- Editions
It can be a little difficult to command attention when surrounded by lunatics.

Adam Foulds
Do not, the angel told her, 'ask to see him. His love is a flood. His glory is a fire. You could not withstand it.

Adam Foulds
- Love
- Angel
- Glory
Madness has no sense of humour.

Adam Foulds
- Madness
- Humour
The forest made its little eating sounds.

Adam Foulds
- Eating
- Forest
- Sounds
He thought that the edge of the world was a day's walk away, there where the cloud-breeding sky touched the horizon. He thought that when he got there he would find a deep pit and he would be able to look down into it and see the world's secrets.

Adam Foulds
- World
- Secrets
- Horizon

He watched with great pleasure the skill of the men, their knives quick as fish.

Adam Foulds
- Men
- Skill
- Knives