We are supposed to be the children of Seth; but Seth is too much of an effete nonentity to deserve ancestral regard. No, we are the sons of Cain, and with violence can be associated the attacks on sound, stone, wood and metal that produced civilization.
Anthony BurgessYou don't say, 'I've done it!' You come, with a kind of horrible desperation, to realize that this will do.
Anthony BurgessA work of fiction should be, for its author, a journey into the unknown, and the prose should convey the difficulties of the journey.
Anthony BurgessThe trouble began with Forster. After him it was considered ungentlemanly to write more than five or six novels.
Anthony Burgess