382 Quotes by Anthony Burgess

Horrorshow is right, friend. A real show of horrors.

It stands to reason you’ve got to have a war. Not because anybody wants it, of course, but because there’s an army. An army here and an army there and armies all over the shop. Armies is for wars and wars is for armies. That’s only plain common sense.’‘War’s finished,’ said Tristram. 'War’s outlawed. There hasn’t been any war for years and years and years.’'All the more reason why there’s got to be a war,’ said the driver, 'if we’ve been such a long time without one.

As we grow older, the memories of early life brighten, those of maturity and senescence grow dim and confused.

With both agents and publishers hungry for bestsellers, literature will have to end up as a cottage industry.

It's always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come from is part of where you're going.

The trouble began with Forster. After him it was considered ungentlemanly to write more than five or six novels.

Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through.

What critics often ask for is the impossible, though this may be a salutary means of extending the borders of art.

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.