Anthony Burgess
Anthony Burgess
John Anthony Burgess Wilson, FRSL – who published under the pen name Anthony Burgess – 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...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth25 February 1917
serious madness said
It'll be your own torture," he said, serious. "I hope to God it'll torture you to madness.
What's it going to be then, eh?
giving perfect littles
It had been a wonderful evening and what I needed now, to give it the perfect ending, was a little of the Ludwig Van.
men law orange
... A CLOCKWORK ORANGE- and I said: 'That's a fair gloopy title. Who ever heard of a clockwork orange?' Then I read a malenky bit out loud in a sort of very high type preaching goloss: '- The attempt to impose upon a man, a creature of growth and capable of sweetness, to ooze juicily at the last round the bearded lips of God, to attempt to impose, I say, laws and conditions appropriate to a mechanical creation, against this I raise my swordpen-
wine orange bird
It was like a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now.
sweet brother stars
But where I itty now, O my brothers, is all on my oddy knocky, where you cannot go. Tomorrow is all like sweet flowers and the turning vonny earth and the stars and the old Luna up there. ... And all that cal.
opposites people creative
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.
children said respiration
He said it was artificial respiration but now I find I'm to have his child.
book behinds written
Any book has behind it all the other books that have been written.
funny hurt shoes
We only need to wear shoes because the British built roads which hurt our feet.
birthright
Fumbling for a word is everybody's birthright.
goes-on ends
I start at the beginning, go on to the end, then stop.
opposites moral life-is
Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.
art boys age
This is great art, we've been told this by the great pundits of our age. And in consequence why should we bother to learn? There's nothing more delightful than to be told, 'You don't have to learn, my boy. There's nothing in it. Modern art? There's nothing in it.