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
novelist permitted
A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although. . . he may be permitted to be an intellectual.
creators great
The downtrodden, who are the great creators of slang.
orange evil lovely
If he can only perform good or only perform evil, then he is a clockwork orange—meaning that he has the appearance of an organism lovely with colour and juice but is in fact only a clockwork toy to be wound up by God or the Devil.
imagination records language
Language exists less to record the actual than to liberate the imagination.
abiding behaviour likes
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 to which human behaviour can sink. Everyone likes to have his deepest convictions confirmed; that is one of the most abiding of human satisfaction.
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.
slang downtrodden creator
The downtrodden are the great creators of slang.
colonialism reason colonization
Colonialism. The enforced spread of the rule of reason. But who is going to spread it among the colonizers?