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title: "1 Fiction Kind Quotes By Angus Wilson"
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> [All fiction for me is a kind of magic and trickery, a confidence trick, trying to make people believe something is true that isn't.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/angus-wilson/all-fiction-for-me-is-a-kind-of-magic-and-trickery-a-confidence-trick/)

[Angus Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/angus-wilson/)

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## More by Angus Wilson

> [I have no concern for the common man except that he should not be so common.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/angus-wilson/i-have-no-concern-for-the-common-man-except-that-he-should-not-be-so/)

[Angus Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/angus-wilson/)

> [Envy has the ugliness of a trapped rat that has gnawed its own foot in its effort to escape.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/angus-wilson/envy-has-the-ugliness-of-a-trapped-rat-that-has-gnawed-its-own-foot/)

[Angus Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/angus-wilson/)

> [I opened the large central window of my office room to its full on the fine early May morning. Then I stood for a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/angus-wilson/i-opened-the-large-central-window-of-my-office-room-to-its-full-on/)

[Angus Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/angus-wilson/)

> [Once a Catholic always a Catholic.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/angus-wilson/once-a-catholic-always-a-catholic/)

[Angus Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/angus-wilson/)

> [Life isn't just to be found, you have to work for it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/angus-wilson/life-isn-t-just-to-be-found-you-have-to-work-for-it/)

[Angus Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/angus-wilson/)

> [“...Life can't be put on paper in all its complexity.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/angus-wilson/life-can-t-be-put-on-paper-in-all-its-complexity/)

[Angus Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/angus-wilson/)

> [“Between Margaret's fine edged art and Glady's rough simplicity, where did the greater feminine solace lie? True art, after all, is simple.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/angus-wilson/between-margaret-s-fine-edged-art-and-glady-s-rough-simplicity-where/)

[Angus Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/angus-wilson/)

> [People are able to live with only half a heart, to live without real compassion, because they are able to use words that are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/angus-wilson/people-are-able-to-live-with-only-half-a-heart-to-live-without-real/)

[Angus Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/angus-wilson/)

> [All the seven deadly sins are self destroying, morbid appetites, but in their early stages at least, lust and gluttony, averice and sloth know…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/angus-wilson/all-the-seven-deadly-sins-are-self-destroying-morbid-appetites-but-in/)

[Angus Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/angus-wilson/)

> [The novelist must be his own most harsh critic and also his own most loving admirer and about both he must say nothing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/angus-wilson/the-novelist-must-be-his-own-most-harsh-critic-and-also-his-own-most/)

[Angus Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/angus-wilson/)

> [The roots of art and play lie very close together.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/angus-wilson/the-roots-of-art-and-play-lie-very-close-together/)

[Angus Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/angus-wilson/)

> [The opportunities for heroism are limited in this kind of world: the most people can do is sometimes not to be as weak as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/angus-wilson/the-opportunities-for-heroism-are-limited-in-this-kind-of-world-the/)

[Angus Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/angus-wilson/)

> [The impulse to write a novel comes from a momentary unified vision of life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/angus-wilson/the-impulse-to-write-a-novel-comes-from-a-momentary-unified-vision-of/)

[Angus Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/angus-wilson/)

> [“Fiction writing is a kind of magic. If I communicate the magic spell . . . it loses its force for me.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/angus-wilson/fiction-writing-is-a-kind-of-magic-if-i-communicate-the-magic-spell/)

[Angus Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/angus-wilson/)

> [“ 'Youth is the time for loving, so poets always say.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/angus-wilson/youth-is-the-time-for-loving-so-poets-always-say/)

[Angus Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/angus-wilson/)

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