Anthony Burgess Quotes
I'll Tell You A Thing That Will Shock You. It Will Certainly Shock The Readers Of Writer's Digest. What I Often Do Nowadays When I Have To, Say, Describe A Room, Is To Take A Page Of A Dictionary, Any Page At All, And See If With The Words Suggested By That One Page In The Dictionary I Can Build Up A Room, Build Up A Scene. ... I Even Did It In A Novel I Wrote Called MF. There's A Description Of A Hotel Vestibule Whose Properties Are Derived From Page 167 In R.J. Wilkinson's Malay-English Dictionary. Nobody Has Noticed. ... As Most Things In Life Are Arbitrary Anyway, You're Not Doing Anything Naughty, You're Really Normally Doing What Nature Does, You're Just Making An Entity Out Of The Elements. I Do Recommend It To Young Writers.
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