Anthony Burgess Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: February 25, 1917 - November 22, 1993

Topics

ManBackWantLondonWriteGoing

I've grown to love L.A., but it's the most socially awkward place. All these people have come there not to be something but to pretend to be someone trying to be someone.

Melissa McCarthy

LovePeopleSomeoneTryingPlace

In economics, the majority is always wrong.

John Kenneth Galbraith

EconomicsWrongAlwaysMajority

I think the players, I put in the book for example that we should go back to wood rackets, probably they laughed at me, I'm a dinosaur, but I think that you see these great players, have even more variety and you see more strategy, there'd be more subtlety.

John McEnroe

GreatMeBookThinkStrategyYou

I've never been about just trying to do what works. I've been about trying to authentically express how I feel.

Andy Mineo

FeelTryingNeverBeenJustI Feel

My books - I kid you not - are very often shelved between DeLillo and de Sade. Which not only completely cracks me up, but it seems like an encouraging message from the universe: between those two, there's a lot of wiggle room. I feel just fine there.

Stacey D'Erasmo

MeUniverseFeelYouKidRoom

Some people are afraid of what they might find if they try to analyze themselves too much, but you have to crawl into your wounds to discover where your fears are. Once the bleeding starts, the cleansing can begin.

Tori Amos

PeopleYouFindToo MuchTryBegin

This is the crux of the problem: because the Republicans and the right wing have been successful in almost eliminating unions, everyone else has suffered as a result.

Michael Moore

ProblemResultUnionsRightEveryone

I felt that in time simple stone tools would be found in early Pleistocene in England.

Louis Leakey

TimeSimpleToolsStoneEarlyWould

It's exciting being in the present. You're always reading emails, talking about the future, looking at pictures on Facebook of the past. But living in the present? It's almost a dead medium. I almost want to do a sketch about being in the present.

Jonathan Krisel

FuturePastLookingReadingPresent

I was a hyper kid in school and the teacher suggested to my mom she needed to do something with me.

Devon Sawa

TeacherSchoolMeMomSheKid

Do you realize that you can't play the game of life with sweaty palms?

Phil McGraw

LifeGameYouPlayRealizeSweaty

A weapon kills people and makes people in cities dominated by fear. But if you turn it into an instrument, it's like social gold. It brings people together and you build trust.

Pedro Reyes

FearTrustTogetherPeopleGoldYou

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