Best Anthony Burgess Quotes
- Novelists are perhaps the last people in the world to be entrusted with opinions. The nature of a novel is that it has no opinions,… All
- Literature is all, or mostly, about sex. All
- The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks to the European… Adultery
- Translation is not a matter of words only: it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture. Culture
- The state is never so efficient as when it wants money. Efficient
- Beckett does not believe in God, though he seems to imply that God has committed an unforgivable sin by not existing. Beckett
- 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 have… Biased
- As we are all solipsists, and all die, the world dies with us. Only very minor literature aims at apocalypse. Aim
- The book I am best known for, or only known for, is a novel I am prepared to repudiate: written a quarter of a century… Ago
- He said it was artificial respiration but now I find I'm to have his child. Artificial
- Only in England is the perversion of language regarded as a victory for democracy. America
- If you expect the worst from a person, you can't ever be disappointed... The pessimist takes a sort of gloomy pleasure in observing the depths… Abiding
- Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist. Art
- I think art is sublimated libido. You can’t be a eunuch priest, and you can’t be a eunuch artist. Art
- A work of fiction should be, for its author, a journey into the unknown, and the prose should convey the difficulties of the journey. Author
- All art preserves mysteries which aesthetic philosophers tackle in vain. Aesthetic
- Blockbusting fiction is bought as furniture. Unread, it maintains its value. Read, it looks like money wasted. Cunningly, Americans know that books contain a person,… Americans
- Blessed tree and blessed birds, that were to be neither saved nor damned. Bird
- The trombones crunched redgold under my bed, and behind my gulliver the trumpets three-wise silverflamed, and there by the door the timps rolling through my… All
- To devastate is easier and more spectacular than to create. Create
- The trouble began with Forster. After him it was considered ungentlemanly to write more than five or six novels. Art
- If you write fiction you are, in a sense, corrupted. There's a tremendous corruptibility for the fiction writer because you're dealing mainly with sex and… Basic
- We are supposed to be the children of Seth; but Seth is too much of an effete nonentity to deserve ancestral regard. No, we are… Ancestral
- What critics often ask for is the impossible, though this may be a salutary means of extending the borders of art. Art
- I have heard earnest American sociologists say that American children have a right to the divorce experience as an enriching element of an advanced civilisation. Advanced
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