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 Copy Share Image
“Goodbye, goodbye, may Bog forgive you for a ruined life." Then I got on to the sill, the music blasting away to… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
“What's all this about sin, eh?' 'That,' I said, very sick. 'Using Ludwig van like that. He did no harm to anyone.… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
“Then I noticed, in all my pain and sickness,what music it was that like crackled and boomed on the sound-track, and it… — Anthony Burgess 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 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 Copy Share Image
I viddied that thinking is for the gloopy ones and that the oomny ones use like inspiration and what Bog sends. For… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
And to all others in this story profound shooms of lip music brrrrrr. And they can kiss my sharries. — 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
