A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual. Anthony Burgess English Novelist More Anthony Burgess Quotes 0
Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room. Anthony Burgess English Novelist More Anthony Burgess Quotes 0
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 English Novelist More Anthony Burgess Quotes 0
Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30,000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20,000. Anthony Burgess English Novelist More Anthony Burgess Quotes 0
He said it was artificial respiration, but now I find I am to have his child. Anthony Burgess English Novelist More Anthony Burgess Quotes 0
If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others. Anthony Burgess English Novelist More Anthony Burgess Quotes 0
It's always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come from is part of where you're going. Anthony Burgess English Novelist More Anthony Burgess Quotes 0
Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone. Anthony Burgess English Novelist More Anthony Burgess Quotes 0
Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through. Anthony Burgess English Novelist More Anthony Burgess Quotes 0
One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going. Anthony Burgess English Novelist More Anthony Burgess Quotes 0
Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare. Anthony Burgess English Novelist More Anthony Burgess Quotes 0
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 English Novelist More Anthony Burgess Quotes 0
The downtrodden are the great creators of slang. Anthony Burgess English Novelist More Anthony Burgess Quotes 0
The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it. Anthony Burgess English Novelist More Anthony Burgess Quotes 0
The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon. Anthony Burgess English Novelist More Anthony Burgess Quotes 0
To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art. Anthony Burgess English Novelist More Anthony Burgess Quotes 0
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 English Novelist More Anthony Burgess Quotes 0
We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation. Anthony Burgess English Novelist More Anthony Burgess Quotes 0
Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets. Anthony Burgess English Novelist More Anthony Burgess Quotes 0