Quotes by Anthony Burgess

About Anthony Burgess:

John Anthony Burgess Wilson was an English writer and composer. From relatively modest beginnings in a Catholic family in Manchester, he eventually became one of the best known English literary figures of the latter half of the twentieth century.
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If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.

Anthony Burgess

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

Anthony Burgess

He said it was artificial respiration, but now I find I am to have his child.

Anthony Burgess

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

Anthony Burgess

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

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

Minister: As I was saying, Alex, you can be instrumental in changing the public verdict. Do you understand, Alex? Have I made myself clear? Alex: As an unmuddied lake, Fred. As clear as an azure sky of deepest summer. You can rely on me, Fred.

Anthony Burgess

A work of fiction should be, for its author, a journey into the unknown, and the prose should convey the difficulties of the journey.

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Language exists less to record the actual than to liberate the imagination.

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I wish people would think of me as a musician who writes novels, instead of a novelist who writes music on the side.

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Colonialism. The enforced spread of the rule of reason. But who is going to spread it among the colonizers?

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Author Bio

  • NameAnthony Burgess
  • DescriptionEnglish writer
  • AliasesJohn Anthony Burgess Wilson
  • BornFebruary 25, 1917
  • DiedNovember 22, 1993
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionWriter; Journalist; Translator; Screenwriter; Poet; Composer; Novelist
  • AwardsPrometheus Award - Hall Of Fame