“That's what it's going to be then, brothers, as I come to the like end of this tale. You have been everywhere… — Anthony Burgess Brotherhood Copy Share Image
When I first began to write fiction, I didn't think I was a comic writer; I thought I was a serious writer.… — Anthony Burgess Comic Copy Share Image
Life's only choosing when to die. Life's a big postponement because the choice is so difficult. It's a tremendous relief not to… — Anthony Burgess Bigs Copy Share Image
This truth may be handled either sinfully or profitably; sinfully as when it is treated on only to satisfy curiosity, and to… — Anthony Burgess Barren Copy Share Image
“And then, before he told me, I knew what it was. The old ptitsa who had all the kots and koshkas had… — Anthony Burgess Better world Copy Share Image
I have heard earnest American sociologists say that American children have a right to the divorce experience as an enriching element of… — Anthony Burgess Children Copy Share Image
Elgar is not manic enough to be Russian, not witty or pointilliste enough to be French, not harmonically simple enough to be… — Anthony Burgess Elimination Copy Share Image
“The common people will let it go, oh yes. They will sell liberty for a quieter life. That is why they must… — Anthony Burgess Common people Copy Share Image
To devastate is easier and more spectacular than to create. — Anthony Burgess Creativity Copy Share Image
Blockbusting fiction is bought as furniture. Unread, it maintains its value. Read, it looks like money wasted. Cunningly, Americans know that books… — Anthony Burgess Book Copy Share Image
“You've sinned, I suppose, but your punishment has been out of all proportion. They have turned you into something other than a… — Anthony Burgess Art Copy Share Image
Keep away from physicians. It is all probing and guessing and pretending with them. They leave it to Nature to cure in… — Anthony Burgess Credit Copy Share Image
The next morning I woke up at oh eight oh oh hours, my brothers, and as I still felt shagged and fagged… — Anthony Burgess Brother Copy Share Image
Then, brothers, it came. Oh, bliss, bliss and heaven. I lay all nagoy to the ceiling, my gulliver on my rookers on… — Anthony Burgess Bliss Copy Share Image
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 Book Copy Share Image
“You must take your chance boy. The choice has been all yours.” — Anthony Burgess Choice Copy Share Image
Welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, well. To what do I owe the extreme pleasure of this surprising visit? — Anthony Burgess Extremes Copy Share Image
All art preserves mysteries which aesthetic philosophers tackle in vain. — Anthony Burgess Aesthetic Copy Share Image
Suddenly, I viddied what I had to do, and what I had wanted to do, and that was to do myself in;… — Anthony Burgess Blast Copy Share Image
Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never… — Anthony Burgess Care Copy Share Image