“Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist.”
Source: Here comes everybody: an introduction to James Joyce for the ordinary reader
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Famous Anthony Burgess Quotes
“I think art is sublimated libido. You can’t be a eunuch priest, and you can’t be a eunuch artist.”
Source: Conversations with Anthony Burgess
Source: Homage to QWERT YUIOP: essays
“All art preserves mysteries which aesthetic philosophers tackle in vain.”
Source: You've had your time: being the second part of the confessions of Anthony Burgess
“Blessed tree and blessed birds, that were to be neither saved nor damned.”
“To devastate is easier and more spectacular than to create.”
Source: A Clockwork Orange
Source: You've had your time: being the second part of the confessions of Anthony Burgess
Source: You've had your time: being the second part of the confessions of Anthony Burgess
“All novels are experimental.”
Source: Conversations with Anthony Burgess
“The practice of fiction can be dangerous: it puts ideas into the head of the world.”
Source: You've had your time: being the second part of the confessions of Anthony Burgess
Source: You've had your time: being the second part of the confessions of Anthony Burgess
Source: The Kingdom of the Wicked
Source: You've had your time: being the second part of the confessions of Anthony Burgess
Source: You've had your time: being the second part of the confessions of Anthony Burgess
Source: Language made plain
“The writer's life seethes within but not without.”
Source: You've had your time: being the second part of the confessions of Anthony Burgess
Source: One Hand Clapping