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Novel Quotes by Anthony Burgess
- Novelists are perhaps the last people in the world to be entrusted with opinions. The nature of a novel is that it has no opinions,…
- 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 have…
- The book I am best known for, or only known for, is a novel I am prepared to repudiate: written a quarter of a century…
- The trouble began with Forster. After him it was considered ungentlemanly to write more than five or six novels.
- All novels are experimental.
- There is, in fact, not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the possibility of moral transformation, or an increase in wisdom,…
- The 21st chapter gives the novel the quality of genuine fiction, an art founded on the principle that human beings change. ----- "A Clockwork Orange…
- There is, in fact, not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the possibility of moral transformation, or an increase in wisdom,…
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