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Nearly all monster stories depend for their success on Jack killing the Giant, Beowulf or St. George slaying the Dragon, Harry Potter triumphing over the basilisk. That is their inner grammar, and the whole shape of the story leads towards it.

~A. N. Wilson

Topics: Depend Dragon George Giant Grammar Harry Harry Potter Inner Jack Leads Monster Nearly Over Potter Shape Stories Story Success Towards Whole

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I had lost faith in biography.

~A. N. Wilson

Topics: Biography Faith Had Lost

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I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.

~A. N. Wilson

Topics: About Novels Objective People Person Tell Think Truth Why Write You

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I don't write books inadvertently.

~A. N. Wilson

Topics: Books Inadvertently Write

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Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.

~A. N. Wilson

Topics: Did Early Entirely Good Influence Much Never Novels Very

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If you read about Mussolini or Stalin or some of these other great monsters of history, they were at it all the time, that they were getting up in the morning very early. They were physically very active. They didn't eat lunch.

~A. N. Wilson

Topics: About Active Early Eat Getting Great History Lunch Monsters Morning Other Physically Read Some Stalin Time Up Very Were You

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I think one of the very frightening things about the regime of the National Socialists is that it made people happy.

~A. N. Wilson

Topics: About Frightening Happy Made National People Regime Socialists Things Think Very I Think

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Everyone writes in Tolstoy's shadow, whether one feels oneself to be Tolstoyan or not.

~A. N. Wilson

Topics: Everyone Feels Oneself Shadow Tolstoy Whether Writes

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If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year. I don't manage nearly that... but I have published slightly too much recently.

~A. N. Wilson

Topics: Book Day Imagine Journalists Long Manage Most Much Nearly Published Recently Slightly Too Too Much Very Which Words Would Writing Year You

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I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.

~A. N. Wilson

Topics: Austen Corner Dining Jane Jane Austen Like Table Work

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: October 27th, 1950

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