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
english-novelist
He said it was artificial respiration, but now I find I am to have his child.
banking european lots scope
There is lots of scope for European banking deals.
brother wicked milk
How wicked, my brothers, innocent milk must always seem to me now.
feelings evening energy
...but we were all feeling that bit shagged and fagged and fashed, it having been an evening of some small energy expenditure...
brother real winter
And, my brothers, it was real satisfaction to me to waltz-left two three, right two three-and carve left cheeky and right cheeky, so that like two curtains of blood seemed to pour out at the same time, one on either side of his fat filthy oily snout in the winter starlight.
pain sleep forever
Suddenly, I viddied what I had to do, and what I had wanted to do, and that was to do myself in; to snuff it, to blast off for ever out of this wicked, cruel world. One moment of pain perhaps and, then, sleep forever, and ever and ever.
running cutting light
Oh, it was gorgeosity and yumyumyum. When it came to the Scherzo I could viddy myself very clear running and running on like the very light and mysterious nogas, carving the whole litso of the creeching world with my cut-throat britva.
art orange giving
The 21st chapter gives the novel the quality of genuine fiction, an art founded on the principle that human beings change. ----- "A Clockwork Orange Resucked" intro to first full American version 1986
want states efficient
The state is never so efficient as when it wants money.
nature silly intelligent
Novelists are perhaps the last people in the world to be entrusted with opinions. The nature of a novel is that it has no opinions, only the dialectic of contrary views, some of which, all of which, may be untenable and even silly. A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although he may be permitted to be an intellectual.
writing names desire
I wrote much because I was paid little. I had no great desire to leave a literary name behind me.
art wall hard-work
Art is rare and sacred and hard work, and there ought to be a wall of fire around it.