A man can write one book that can be great, but this doesn't make him a great writer-just the writer of a… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
And I sort of frowned about that, thinking. 'You felt ill this afternoon,' he said, 'because you're getting better. When we're healthy… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
But don't think that it's a system or a culture or a state or a person that does the letting down. It's… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
I think art is sublimated libido. You can’t be a eunuch priest, and you can’t be a eunuch artist. — 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
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
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
