Tag: Anthony Burgess
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I enjoy journalism; anybody does. You see the results immediately; you’ve got an immediate audience instead of having to wait for your audience as you do if you’re writing a book, and you get a bit of money coming in, and you can see more clearly how you’re paying the bills. But it’s not a good position for the serious novelist to be in.
Anthony Burgess
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I went abroad to Malaya and came back and tended naturally to gravitate towards the south, I suppose, near London where things seemed to be going on; but I’m still a Lancashire man, and what I want to write someday is a novel about Manchester. Very much a regional novel.
Anthony Burgess
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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.
Anthony Burgess
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I didn’t think; I experimented.
Anthony Burgess
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Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.
Anthony Burgess
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If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.
Anthony Burgess
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To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.
Anthony Burgess
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Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public menace.
Anthony Burgess
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The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it, if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
Anthony Burgess
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The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.
Anthony Burgess