Angus Wilson Quotes
- 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.
- The opportunities for heroism are limited in this kind of world: the most people can do is sometimes not to be as weak as they've…
- The roots of art and play lie very close together.
- The novelist must be his own most harsh critic and also his own most loving admirer and about both he must say nothing.
- Life isn't just to be found, you have to work for it.
- I have no concern for the common man except that he should not be so common.
- All the seven deadly sins are self destroying, morbid appetites, but in their early stages at least, lust and gluttony, averice and sloth know some…
- Once a Catholic always a Catholic.
- I opened the large central window of my office room to its full on the fine early May morning. Then I stood for a few…
- Envy has the ugliness of a trapped rat that has gnawed its own foot in its effort to escape.