“A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather t...” — Joyce Cary Quote

“A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.”

“The will is never free - it is always attached to an object, a purpose. It is simply the engine in the car - it can't steer.”

“For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.”

“Bad criticism recites rote arguments. The shame of rote arguments isn't just that they're cliches, though they are, but that they tend to hide from us why a critic is actually thinking what they're thinking.”

“In the works of Duchamp, space begins to walk and take on form; it becomes a machine that spins arguments and philosophizes; it resists movement with delay and delay with irony.”

“I've never been mugged, never really experienced street fear. In fact, I'm the one who gets into arguments because I don't keep my mouth shut.”