Fiction Quote by Anthony Burgess Download Open image ““There is only one kind of immorality in fiction, and that is when you write badly.”” — Anthony Burgess ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fiction
“I can't accept that a work of fiction should be either immoral or moral. It should merely show the world as it is and… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
“There is no such thing as a moral or immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Good writers don’t moralize, nor do they preach, but they do create longing for the true and the beautiful.” — Douglas Bond Copy Share Image
“Not all fiction writers are evil, just the ones good at their job. After all, it's not a decent book if it can't make… — Ellie Rose McKee Copy Share Image
“The great thing about writing fiction is that you can do whatever the fuck you want, go as far as you are willing to… — Richard Denney Copy Share Image
“I'm a novelist. Anything you say can be taken down and used against you in a work of fiction.” — Anne R. Allen Copy Share Image
“I'm always highly irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It is a plunge into reality and it's… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“The job of a fiction writer is to engage the reader and rip them from reality.” — Tom Wiseman Copy Share Image
“Fiction means never letting the pure truth get in the way of a good story.” — Nathaniel Robert Winters Copy Share Image
“I was thinking the other day about the idea that you have a reader and a writer, and they’re different and they’re flawed and… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“Sometimes fiction is a way of coping with the poison of the world in a way that lets us survive it.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
If you expect the worst from a person you can never be disappointed. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
“A man who serves language, however imperfectly, should always serve truth.” — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
All human life is here, but the Holy Ghost seems to be somewhere else. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Rome's just a city like anywhere else. A vastly overrated city, I'd say. It trades on belief just as Stratford trades on Shakespeare. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Without class differences, England would cease to be the living theatre it is. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
The ideal reader of my novels is a lapsed Catholic and failed musician, short-sighted, colour-blind, auditorily biased, who has read the books that I… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
... A CLOCKWORK ORANGE- and I said: 'That's a fair gloopy title. Who ever heard of a clockwork orange?' Then I read a malenky… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
“…progress isn't necessarily about change but about things turning out as we want them to” — Phil Hogan Copy Share Image
The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way. — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
I do think that theater is a great venue for science fiction, and not just adaptations but also original work. I also think some… — Edward Einhorn Copy Share Image
Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
I love writing fiction and can do it anywhere - I once even missed a flight because I was so engrossed. — Prue Leith Copy Share Image
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth:… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
There's always that discussion about fiction about how do you market it - these are books for boys, these are books for girls, these… — L.A. Weatherly Copy Share Image
Inspiration comes from so many sources. Music, other fiction, the non-fiction I read, TV shows, films, news reports, people I know, stories I hear,… — Trudi Canavan Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in making a diagnostic novel or a concern. I'm 100 percent committed in fiction to the pleasure principle - that's what… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“His hands on my waist he gently pulled me n embrace. I could feel his breath on my face our lips were about to… — Nicole Eglinger Copy Share Image
