Anthony Burgess

Anthony Burgess: Americans will listen,...

Anthony Burgess: Americans will listen,...

Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which...

More about this quote...

Anthony Burgess: A novelist should...

Anthony Burgess: A novelist should...

A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although. . . he may be permitted to be an...

More about this quote...

Anthony Burgess: Art is dangerous....

Anthony Burgess: Art is dangerous....

Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want...

More about this quote...

Anthony Burgess: The trouble began...

Anthony Burgess: The trouble began...

The trouble began with Forster. After him it was considered ungentlemanly to write more than five or six...

More about this quote...

Anthony Burgess: Blockbusting fiction is...

Anthony Burgess: Blockbusting fiction is...

Blockbusting fiction is bought as furniture. Unread, it maintains its value. Read, it looks like money wasted....

More about this quote...

Anthony Burgess: Americans will listen,...

Anthony Burgess: Americans will listen,...

Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which...

More about this quote...

Anthony Burgess: Laugh and the...

Anthony Burgess: Laugh and the...

Laugh and the world laughs with you; snore and you sleep alone.

Source: Inside Mr....

More about this quote...

Anthony Burgess: Novelists are perhaps...

Anthony Burgess: Novelists are perhaps...

Novelists are perhaps the last people in the world to be entrusted with opinions. The nature of a novel is that it has...

More about this quote...

Anthony Burgess: Life is a...

Anthony Burgess: Life is a...

Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through.

Source: On Samuel...

More about this quote...

Anthony Burgess: Death comes along...

Anthony Burgess: Death comes along...

Death comes along like a gas bill one can't pay.

Source: From Rand Lindsly's HUGE...

More about this quote...

Anthony Burgess: The possession of...

Anthony Burgess: The possession of...

The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.

Source: New York...

More about this quote...

Anthony Burgess: The unconscious mind...

Anthony Burgess: The unconscious mind...

The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon.

Source: In...

More about this quote...

Anthony Burgess: He said it...

Anthony Burgess: He said it...

He said it was artificial respiration but now I find I'm to have his child.

Source:...

More about this quote...

Anthony Burgess: Bath twice a...

Anthony Burgess: Bath twice a...

Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public...

More about this quote...

Anthony Burgess: We all need...

Anthony Burgess: We all need...

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

Source: In Face, (London),...

More about this quote...

Anthony Burgess: Americans will listen,...

Anthony Burgess: Americans will listen,...

Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which...

More about this quote...

Anthony Burgess: A novelist should...

Anthony Burgess: A novelist should...

A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although. . . he may be permitted to be an...

More about this quote...

Anthony Burgess: Art is dangerous....

Anthony Burgess: Art is dangerous....

Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want...

More about this quote...

Anthony Burgess: The trouble began...

Anthony Burgess: The trouble began...

The trouble began with Forster. After him it was considered ungentlemanly to write more than five or six...

More about this quote...

Anthony Burgess: Blockbusting fiction is...

Anthony Burgess: Blockbusting fiction is...

Blockbusting fiction is bought as furniture. Unread, it maintains its value. Read, it looks like money wasted....

More about this quote...

Page 1 of 2


(C)2024 Quotable Success - All Rights Reserved.

Quotable Success
Harrisonburg, VA