“A man who serves language, however imperfectly, should always serve truth.” — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
“To some of us, the wresting of beauty out of language is the only thing in the world that matters.” — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Only in England is the perversion of language regarded as a victory for democracy. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
A word in a dictionary is very much like a car in a mammoth motor show - full of potential but temporarily… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
There is a satisfactory boniness about grammar which the flesh of sheer vocabulary requires before it can become a vertebrate and walk… — Anthony Burgess 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 Copy Share Image
Language exists less to record the actual than to liberate the imagination. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Translation is not a matter of words only: it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
“English is a curiously expressive language. Womb, room, tomb. It sums up living in three words.” — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
That so many writers have been prepared to accept a kind of martyrdom is the best tribute that flesh can pay to… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
If you expect the worst from a person you can never be disappointed. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
“A man who serves language, however imperfectly, should always serve truth.” — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
All human life is here, but the Holy Ghost seems to be somewhere else. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Rome's just a city like anywhere else. A vastly overrated city, I'd say. It trades on belief just as Stratford trades on Shakespeare. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Without class differences, England would cease to be the living theatre it is. — Anthony Burgess 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 that I… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
... A CLOCKWORK ORANGE- and I said: 'That's a fair gloopy title. Who ever heard of a clockwork orange?' Then I read a malenky… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
