Books Quote by A. N. Wilson

I played Iris Murdoch, who had not long died, and I felt the responsibility very heavy on my shoulders.

— Judi Dench

You have the older generation like Iris Murdoch and Angus Wilson who are not as old as Graham Greene, but still are coming on.…

— William Golding

Even if I couldn't get my early novels published, I could still write. I went into newspapers, where I got paid to write every…

— Linwood Barclay

I've always been the first to admit that Jimi was a very big influence on my early stuff.

— Robin Trower

“The influence of early books is profound. So much of the future lies on the shelves. Early reading has more influence than any religious…

— Graham Greene

I could start with Mandelstam, who was a huge influence on my early writing.

— Helen Dunmore

The important discovery I made very early is that my novels had to be written without any given plan or outline. I can't do…

— Per Petterson

My early novels were written in quite a dark place. I stand by them, but I would never write them again. I think it…

— Matt Haig

I continued writing the bad plays which fortunately nobody would produce, just as no one did me the unkindness of publishing my early novels.

— Patrick White

“Although Chester wrote about Harlem and black workers struggling to get ahead, he was reared in the Deep South and Cleveland, the middle-class child…

— Lawrence P. Jackson

“There is a gulf fixed between those who can sleep and those who cannot. It is one of the greatest divisions of the human…

— Stephen King

“The novel, then, provides a reduction of the world different from that of the treatise. It has to lie. Words, thoughts, patterns of word…

— Frank Kermode