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
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.