I chart a little first-list of names, rough synopsis of chapters, and so on. But one daren't overplan; so many things are… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Senseless violence is a prerogative of youth, which has much energy but little talent for the constructive. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
The essence of pop stardom is immaturity - a wretched little pseudo-musical gift, a development of the capacity to shock, a short-lived… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
It may not be nice to be good, little 6655321. It may be horrible to be good. And when I say that… — Anthony Burgess 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 Copy Share Image
It had been a wonderful evening and what I needed now, to give it the perfect ending, was a little of the… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
I wrote much because I was paid little. I had no great desire to leave a literary name behind me. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
I mean, there's little enough in this life, really, and you only find it worth living for the odd moments, and if… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
...youth is only being in a way like it might be an animal. No, it is not just like being an animal… — 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
