Quotes by Burgess, Anthony

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation. >>

The trouble began with Forster. After him it was considered ungentlema >>

Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. Th >>

Quotations about Fiction

The narrative impulse is always with us; we couldn't imagine ourselves >>

The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's >>

Undermining experience, embellishing experience, rearranging and enlar >>

Novelists are perhaps the last people in the world to be entrusted with opinions. The nature of a novel is that it has no opinions, only the dialectic of contrary views, some of which, all of which, may be untenable and even silly. A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although he may be permitted to be an intellectual.

Burgess, Anthony