A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual.


You've had your time: being the second part of the confessions of Anthony Burgess (ed. Heinemann Educational Books, 1990)


A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual.

A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual.

A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual.

A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual.