If you expect the worst from a person you can never be disappointed. — Anthony Burgess Disappointed Copy Share Image
Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through. — Anthony Burgess Gray Copy Share Image
A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual. — Anthony Burgess Intellectual Copy Share Image
“A man who serves language, however imperfectly, should always serve truth.” — Anthony Burgess Language Copy Share Image
All human life is here, but the Holy Ghost seems to be somewhere else. — Anthony Burgess Atheism 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… — Anthony Burgess Atheism 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… — Anthony Burgess Character Copy Share Image
Without class differences, England would cease to be the living theatre it is. — Anthony Burgess Cease 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
... A CLOCKWORK ORANGE- and I said: 'That's a fair gloopy title. Who ever heard of a clockwork orange?' Then I read… — Anthony Burgess Appropriate Copy Share Image
A work of fiction should be, for its author, a journey into the unknown, and the prose should convey the difficulties of… — Anthony Burgess Books Copy Share Image
“They don't go into what is the cause of goodness, so why of the other shop? If lewdies are good that's because… — Anthony Burgess Big mac Copy Share Image
“By definition, a human being is endowed with free will. He can use this to choose between good and evil. If he… — Anthony Burgess Clockwork-orange Copy Share Image
Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist. — Anthony Burgess Art Copy Share Image
I went abroad to Malaya and came back and tended naturally to gravitate towards the south, I suppose, near London where things… — Anthony Burgess Back Copy Share Image
The 21st chapter gives the novel the quality of genuine fiction, an art founded on the principle that human beings change. -----… — Anthony Burgess Art Copy Share Image
“I can't accept that a work of fiction should be either immoral or moral. It should merely show the world as it… — Anthony Burgess Morality Copy Share Image
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 Chapters Copy Share Image
It'll be your own torture," he said, serious. "I hope to God it'll torture you to madness. — Anthony Burgess Madness 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 Cold wind Copy Share Image
“You don't say, 'I've done it!' You come, with a kind of horrible desperation, to realize that this will do.” — Anthony Burgess Desperation Copy Share Image
