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If you write fiction you are, in a sense, corrupted. There's a tremendous corruptibility for the fiction Writerbecause you're dealing mainly with sex and violence. These remain the basic themes, they're the basic themes of Shakespeare whether you like it

Fiction

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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, only the dialectic of contrary views, some of which, all of which, may be untenable and even silly. A novelist should not b

Fiction

4.9 · 45 votes

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The downtrodden, who are the great creators of slang.

Language

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The trouble began with Forster. After him it was considered ungentlemanly to write more than five or six novels.

Writers

3.1 · 61 votes

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Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use their energy creatively so they do the opposite and destroy.

Crime

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Society
We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.
3.8 · 46 votes · 132 reads
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