To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.

Quote by Anthony Burgess

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Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know...

Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know...

I must say that acting was good training for the political life that lay ahead...

I must say that acting was good training for the political life that lay ahead...

Every dogma has its day.

Every dogma has its day.

Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.

Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.

He said it was artificial respiration, but now I find I am to have his...

He said it was artificial respiration, but now I find I am to have his...

A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be...

A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be...

To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.

To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.

Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer...

Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer...

Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.

Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.

Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait...

Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait...

I didn't think; I experimented.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean,...

Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean,...

If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential...

If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential...

Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library:...

Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library:...

The downtrodden are the great creators of slang.

The downtrodden are the great creators of slang.

The adult relation to books is one of absorbing rather than being absorbed

The adult relation to books is one of absorbing rather than being absorbed

One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that...

One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that...

If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little.

If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little.

Age, I do abhor thee, youth, I do adore thee.

Age, I do abhor thee, youth, I do adore thee.

By night an atheist half believes in a God

By night an atheist half believes in a God