Quotes by Burgess, Anthony

Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. Th >>

We are supposed to be the children of Seth; but Seth is too much of an >>

The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to >>

Quotations about Fiction

Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have >>

It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels. >>

You know that fiction, prose rather, is possibly the roughest trade of >>

If you write fiction you are, in a sense, corrupted. There's a tremendous corruptibility for the fiction writer because you're dealing mainly with sex and violence. These remain the basic themes, they're the basic themes of Shakespeare whether you like it or not.

Burgess, Anthony