Angus Wilson Quotes

Sir Angus Frank Johnstone-Wilson, CBE was an English novelist and short story writer. He was one of England's first openly gay authors. He was awarded the 1958 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for The Middle Age of Mrs Eliot and later received a knighthood for his services to literature. Wikipedia

✵ 11. August 1913 – 31. May 1991

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Famous Angus Wilson Quotes

“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 been at other times.”

Malcolm Cowley (ed.) Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, First Series (New York: Viking Press, [1958] 1959) p. 261.

“The impulse to write a novel comes from a momentary unified vision of life.”

The Wild Garden (London: Secker & Warburg, 1963) p. 149.

“His fiction – radical, satirical, polyvalent, sexually courageous, global – extended the mainstream novel, and led it somewhere else. Still not fully recognized, he was one of Britain's greatest late-twentieth-century writers.”

Malcolm Bradbury, in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/50701 <br class="br">Criticism

“People are able to live with only half a heart, to live without real compassion, because they are able to use words that are only forms.”

Interviewed in Iona Review no. 3 (Fall 1972).

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