A man can write one book that can be great, but this doesn't make him a great writer-just the writer of a great book. . . I think a writer has to extend very widely, as well as plunge very deep, to be a great novelist. Anthony Burgess More Quotes by Anthony Burgess More Quotes From Anthony Burgess I must say that acting was good training for the political life that lay ahead of us. Anthony Burgess The downtrodden, who are the great creators of slang. Anthony Burgess Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare. Anthony Burgess thinkers readers rare plentiful 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 bold try mistake country To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art. Anthony Burgess write become certain art One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going. Anthony Burgess beyond going youth age 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 good you enjoy money 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 back things man want When I first began to write fiction, I didn't think I was a comic writer; I thought I was a serious writer. I was surprised when the first novel I wrote was regarded as a funny novel. Anthony Burgess thought think serious funny I'm a natural clown, I suppose, in writing, and one has to accept that; I can't do anything about it. I have written one or two novels which are not specifically funny. I wrote a study of Shakespeare which was not intended to be funny, but some people regard it as such. Anthony Burgess some-people writing funny people
