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
memories years two
In two thousand years all our generals and politicians may be forgotten, but Einstein and Madame Curie and Bernard Shaw and Stravinsky will keep the memory of our age alive.
future ideas pleasant
You have no idea how pleasant it is not to have any future. It's like having a totally efficient contraceptive.
critics
Writers are rarely their own best critics, nor are critics.
divorce america looks
The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks to the European like serial polygamy, is the moral solution to the problem of the itch.
book adults relation
The adult relation to books is one of absorbing rather than being absorbed.
rome cities belief
Rome's just a city like anywhere else. A vastly overrated city, I'd say. It trades on belief just as Stratford trades on Shakespeare.
life mean thinking
I mean, there's little enough in this life, really, and you only find it worth living for the odd moments, and if you think you're going to have those odd moments again, then it makes life wonderful and have a meaning.
artist needs serious
For the serious artist does not satisfy needs
erotic england sisterly
I've always felt that English women had to be approached in a sisterly manner, rather than an erotic manner.
two modern kenneth
John Kenneth Galbraith and Marshall McLuhan are the two greatest modern Canadians that the U.S. has produced.
class-differences theatre england
Without class differences, England would cease to be the living theatre it is.
done kind realizing
You don't say, 'I've done it!' You come, with a kind of horrible desperation, to realize that this will do.
mad world sanity
Sanity is a handicap and liability if you're living in a mad world.
art effort musical
If you want to be considered a poet, you will have to show mastery of the petrarchan sonnet form or the sestina. Your musical efforts must begin with well-formed fugues. There is no substitute for craft... Art begins with craft, and there is no art until craft has been mastered.