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 violence. These remain the basic themes, they're the basic themes of Shakespeare whether you like it or not. -Anthony Burgess

 

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 violence. These remain the basic themes, they're the basic themes of Shakespeare whether you like it or not.


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This quote is just one of 12 total Anthony Burgess quotes in our collection. Anthony Burgess is known for saying '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 violence. These remain the basic themes, they're the basic themes of Shakespeare whether you like it or not.' as well as some of the following quotes.

Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through.

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Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.

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When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man.

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When we promise to love we really mean that we promise to honor a contract.

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Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.

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