Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him? — Anthony Burgess Chosen Copy Share Image
“In other words, I heard life going on, and it was a comfort.” — Anthony Burgess Comfort Copy Share Image
“There is only one kind of immorality in fiction, and that is when you write badly.” — Anthony Burgess Fiction Copy Share Image
He said it was artificial respiration but now I find I'm to have his child. — Anthony Burgess Artificial Copy Share Image
“A man who serves language, however imperfectly, should always serve truth.” — Anthony Burgess Language Copy Share Image
Art is rare and sacred and hard work, and there ought to be a wall of fire around it. — Anthony Burgess Art Copy Share Image
To devastate is easier and more spectacular than to create. — Anthony Burgess Creativity Copy Share Image
...the essential intention is the real sin. A man who cannot choose ceases to be a man. — Anthony Burgess Essentials Copy Share Image
“People don't want to know. They have to be made to know. Whether they act on what they know is up to… — Anthony Burgess Action Copy Share Image
The ideal reader of my novels is a lapsed Catholic and failed musician, short-sighted, colour-blind, auditorily biased, who has read the books… — Anthony Burgess Biased Copy Share Image
“I wish people would think of me as a musician who writes novels, instead of a novelist who writes music on the… — Anthony Burgess Books Copy Share Image
Come with uncle and hear all proper. Hear angel trumpets and devil trombones...you are invited! — Anthony Burgess Angel Copy Share Image
“The scientific approach to life is not necessarily appropriate to states of visceral anguish.” — Anthony Burgess Anguish Copy Share Image
laws and conditions appropriate to a mechanical creation, against this I raise my sword-pen. — Anthony Burgess Appropriate Copy Share Image
“Well, if they would not go to school they must still have their education. And education they had had.” — Anthony Burgess Education Copy Share Image
“Then I wanted to sick up the gluey pie I'd had before the start of the evening, But I couldn't stand the… — Anthony Burgess Alex Copy Share Image
Elgar is not manic enough to be Russian, not witty or pointilliste enough to be French, not harmonically simple enough to be… — Anthony Burgess Elimination Copy Share Image
We are supposed to be the children of Seth; but Seth is too much of an effete nonentity to deserve ancestral regard.… — Anthony Burgess Cain Copy Share Image
If you want to be considered a poet, you will have to show mastery of the petrarchan sonnet form or the sestina.… — Anthony Burgess Art Copy Share Image
I don't write out of fear. I write out of a strong urge to meet death on its own eternal terms, because… — Anthony Burgess Death Copy Share Image
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me that all this ultraviolence and killing is wrong, wrong, and terribly… — Anthony Burgess Alright Copy Share Image
But, brothers, this biting of their toe-nails over what is the CAUSE of badness is what turns me into a fine laughing… — Anthony Burgess Badness Copy Share Image
Delimitation is always difficult. The world is one, life is one. The sweetest and most heavenly of activities partake in some measure… — Anthony Burgess Activity Copy Share Image
Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never… — Anthony Burgess Americans Copy Share Image
One goes on writing partly because it is the only available way of earning a living. It is a hard way and… — Anthony Burgess Apprenticeship Copy Share Image
“There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie, and Dim, Dim being really dim, and we… — Anthony Burgess A-clockwork-orange Copy Share Image
It seems priggish or pollyannaish to deny that my intention in writing the work was to titillate the nastier propensities of my… — Anthony Burgess Book Copy Share Image
“Then I looked at its top sheet, and there was the name – A CLOCKWORK ORANGE – and I said: ‘That’s a… — Anthony Burgess Clockwork Orange Copy Share Image
“You could viddy it all right, all of it, very clear—tables, the stereo, the lights, the sharps and the malchicks—but it was… — Anthony Burgess Shook Copy Share Image
“That's what it's going to be then, brothers, as I come to the like end of this tale. You have been everywhere… — Anthony Burgess Brotherhood Copy Share Image
“(James Joyce, in conversation with Carl Jung:)"Literary artists know more about the human mind than you fellers have a hope in hell… — Anthony Burgess Art Copy Share Image
“You've sinned, I suppose, but your punishment has been out of all proportion. They have turned you into something other than a… — Anthony Burgess Art Copy Share Image
