Quotes from Angus Wilson

Once a Catholic always a Catholic.

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.

I opened the large central window of my office room to its full on the fine early May morning. Then I stood for a few moments, breathing in the soft, warm air that was charged with the scent of white lilacs below.

April, April, laugh thy girlish laughter, and the moment after, Weep thy girlish tears, April.'

You have a perfect right to consign us all to hell, rector, but you must allow us the choice of how we get there. Raspberry Jam

Life isn't just to be found, you have to work for it.

Life can't be put on paper in all its complexity.

Gerald Middleton was a man of mildly but persistently depressive temperament. Such men are not at their best at breakfast, nor is the week before Christmas their happiest time.

Fiction writing is a kind of magic. If I communicate the magic spell . . . it loses its force for me.

Youth is the time for loving, so poets always say.

But you mustn't be too sane, darlings. It really won't do in this family.

one always seemed to be getting too old for something.

Between Margaret's fine edged art and Glady's rough simplicity, where did the greater feminine solace lie? True art, after all, is simple.

Life isn't just to be found, you have to work for it.

I opened the large central window of my office room to its full on the fine early May morning. Then I stood for a few moments, breathing in the soft, warm air that was charged with the scent of white lilacs below.

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

Envy has the ugliness of a trapped rat that has gnawed its own foot in its effort to escape.

I have no concern for the common man except that he should not be so common.

The roots of art and play lie very close together.

All fiction for me is a kind of magic and trickery, a confidence trick, trying to make people believe something is true that isn't.