But we were all feeling that bit shagged and fagged and fashed, it having been an evening of some small energy expenditure.
Anthony BurgessIf you want to be considered a poet, you will have to show mastery of the petrarchan sonnet form or the sestina. Your musical efforts must begin with well-formed fugues. There is no substitute for craft... Art begins with craft, and there is no art until craft has been mastered.
Anthony BurgessA novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual.
Anthony Burgess