I’m a natural clown, I suppose, in writing, and one has to accept that; I can’t do anything about it. I have written one or two novels which are not specifically funny. I wrote a study of Shakespeare which was not intended to be funny, but some people regard it as such. Anthony Burgess Read Quote
When I first began to write fiction, I didn’t think I was a comic writer; I thought I was a serious writer. I was surprised when the first novel I wrote was regarded as a funny novel. Anthony Burgess Read Quote
I went abroad to Malaya and came back and tended naturally to gravitate towards the south, I suppose, near London where things seemed to be going on; but I’m still a Lancashire man, and what I want to write someday is a novel about Manchester. Very much a regional novel. Anthony Burgess Read Quote
I enjoy journalism; anybody does. You see the results immediately; you’ve got an immediate audience instead of having to wait for your audience as you do if you’re writing a book, and you get a bit of money coming in, and you can see more clearly how you’re paying the bills. But it’s not a good position for the serious novelist to be in. Anthony Burgess Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although… he may be permitted to be an intellectual. Anthony Burgess Read Quote
He said it was artificial respiration, but now I find I am to have his child. Anthony Burgess Read Quote
If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others. Anthony Burgess Read Quote
