I don't write out of fear. I write out of a strong urge to meet death on its own eternal terms, because the fact is that if you write as little as a page of prose-even bad prose-that is eternal. Anthony Burgess More Quotes by Anthony Burgess More Quotes From Anthony Burgess Life is, of course, terrible. Anthony Burgess courses terrible life-is Writers are rarely their own best critics, nor are critics. Anthony Burgess critics Without class differences, England would cease to be the living theatre it is. Anthony Burgess differences theatre class And I sort of frowned about that, thinking. 'You felt ill this afternoon,' he said, 'because you're getting better. When we're healthy we respond to the presence of the hateful with fear and nausea. You're becoming healthy, that's all. Anthony Burgess get-better healthy thinking For the serious artist does not satisfy needs Anthony Burgess artist doe needs Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist. Anthony Burgess growing soul art As a chamber hung round about with looking-glasses represents the face upon every turn, thus all the world doth the mercy and the bounty of God; though that be visible, yet it discovers an invisible God and his invisible properties. Anthony Burgess glasses god world The writer's life seethes within but not without. Anthony Burgess writing You have no idea how pleasant it is not to have any future. It's like having a totally efficient contraceptive. Anthony Burgess pleasant future ideas Blockbusting fiction is bought as furniture. Unread, it maintains its value. Read, it looks like money wasted. Cunningly, Americans know that books contain a person, and they want the person, not the book. Anthony Burgess book looks fiction The not-self cannot have the bad, meaning they of the government and the judges and the schools cannot allow the bad because they cannot allow the self. Anthony Burgess government self school To devastate is easier and more spectacular than to create. Anthony Burgess spectacular easier I viddied that thinking is for the gloopy ones and that the oomny ones use like inspiration and what Bog sends. For now it was lovely music that came to my aid. Anthony Burgess lovely inspiration thinking Where do I come into all of this? Am I just some animal or dog?' And that started them off govoreeting real loud and throwing slovos at me. So I creeched louder still, creeching: 'Am I just to be like a clockwork orange? Anthony Burgess real dog animal All novels are experimental. Anthony Burgess novel fiction There is, in fact, not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the possibility of moral transformation, or an increase in wisdom, operating in your chief character or characters. Even trashy bestsellers show people changing. When a fictional work fails to show change, when it merely indicates that human character is set, stony, unregenerable, then you are out of field of the novel and into that of the fable or the allegory. - from the introduction of the 1986 Norton edition Anthony Burgess writing character people Put it off for a bit. All life is putting off. Well, not entirely. Anthony Burgess bits wells life-is Reviewers do not read books with much care . . . their profession is more given to stupidity and malice and literary ignorance even than the profession of novelist. Anthony Burgess stupidity ignorance book Keep away from physicians. It is all probing and guessing and pretending with them. They leave it to Nature to cure in her own time, but they take the credit. As well as very fat fees. Anthony Burgess physicians doctors credit Delimitation is always difficult. The world is one, life is one. The sweetest and most heavenly of activities partake in some measure of violence - the act of love, for instance; music, for instance. Anthony Burgess violence life-is world
