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Fiction Quotes by Anthony Burgess
- A work of fiction should be, for its author, a journey into the unknown, and the prose should convey the difficulties of the journey.
- Blockbusting fiction is bought as furniture. Unread, it maintains its value. Read, it looks like money wasted. Cunningly, Americans know that books contain a person,…
- If you write fiction you are, in a sense, corrupted. There's a tremendous corruptibility for the fiction writer because you're dealing mainly with sex and…
- All novels are experimental.
- The practice of fiction can be dangerous: it puts ideas into the head of the world.
- The 21st chapter gives the novel the quality of genuine fiction, an art founded on the principle that human beings change. ----- "A Clockwork Orange…
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