Quotes by Burgess, Anthony

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation. >>

Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be d >>

If you write fiction you are, in a sense, corrupted. There's a tremend >>

Quotations about Books - Reading

We ought to reverence books; to look on them as useful and mighty thin >>

The most foolish kind of a book is a kind of leaky boat on the sea of >>

After all, the world is not a stage -- not to me: nor a theatre: nor a >>

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. Blockbusting fiction is bought as furniture. Unread, it maintains its value. Read, it looks like money wasted. Cunningly, Americans know that books contain a person, and they want the person, not the book.

Burgess, Anthony