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Book Quotes by Anthony Burgess
- The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.
- Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30,000.…
- A man can write one book that can be great, but this doesn't make him a great writer-just the writer of a great book. .…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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,…
- The adult relation to books is one of absorbing rather than being absorbed.
- A perverse nature can be stimulated by anything. Any book can be used as a pornographic instrument, even a great work of literature if the…
- It seems priggish or pollyannaish to deny that my intention in writing the work was to titillate the nastier propensities of my readers. My own…
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