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Writing Quotes by Anthony Burgess
- I chart a little first-list of names, rough synopsis of chapters, and so on. But one daren't overplan; so many things are generated by the…
- I wrote much because I was paid little. I had no great desire to leave a literary name behind me.
- A man can write one book that can be great, but this doesn't make him a great writer-just the writer of a great book. .…
- Literature is all, or mostly, about sex.
- The trouble began with Forster. After him it was considered ungentlemanly to write more than five or six novels.
- 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…
- The writer's life seethes within but not without.
- 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,…
- It seems priggish or pollyannaish to deny that my intention in writing the work was to titillate the nastier propensities of my readers. My own…
- We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.
- 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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