Novelists are perhaps the last people in the world to be entrusted with opinions. The nature of a novel is that it has no opinions, only the dialectic of contrary views, some of which, all of which, may be untenable and even silly..
Source: You've Had Your Time, ch. 2, 1990.
-- Anthony Burgess, (Feb 25 1917-1993), English novelist, critic, man of letters; His fictional explorations of modern dilemmas combined wit, moral earnestness, and a note of the bizarre.