Anthony Burgess
Anthony Burgess
John Anthony Burgess Wilson, FRSL – who published under the pen name Anthony Burgess – was an English writer and composer. From relatively modest beginnings in a Catholic family in Manchester, he eventually became one of the best known English literary figures of the latter half of the twentieth century...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth25 February 1917
Anthony Burgess quotes about
agents literature cottages
With both agents and publishers hungry for bestsellers, literature will have to end up as a cottage industry.
future ideas pleasant
You have no idea how pleasant it is not to have any future. It's like having a totally efficient contraceptive.
birthright
Fumbling for a word is everybody's birthright.
opposites people creative
Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use their energy creatively so they do the opposite and destroy.
orange pleasure wells
Welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, well. To what do I owe the extreme pleasure of this surprising visit?
worst disappointed persons
If you expect the worst from a person you can never be disappointed.
orange evening three
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie and Dim, Dim being really dim, and we sat in the Korova Milkbar making up our rassoodocks what to do with the evening.
spit
Eat this sweetish segment or spit it out. You are free.
slang downtrodden creator
The downtrodden are the great creators of slang.
lessons bogs ive-learned
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me that all this ultraviolence and killing is wrong, wrong, and terribly wrong. I've learned me lesson, sir. I've seen now what I've never seen before. I'm cured! Praise Bog! I'm cured! I was cured alright.
clockwork
I see what is right and approve, but I do what is wrong.
colonialism reason colonization
Colonialism. The enforced spread of the rule of reason. But who is going to spread it among the colonizers?
human-nature nonsense
I conclude that there is as much sense in nonsense as there is nonsense in sense.
english-novelist
He said it was artificial respiration, but now I find I am to have his child.