It'll be your own torture," he said, serious. "I hope to God it'll torture you to madness.
Anthony BurgessWomen thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.
Anthony BurgessOne goes on writing partly because it is the only available way of earning a living. It is a hard way and highly competitive. My heart drops into my bowels when I enter a bookshop and see how fierce the competition is...There is also a privier reason for pushing on, and that is the hopeless hope that someday that intractable enemy language will yield to the struggle to control it... Mastery never comes, and one serves a lifelong apprenticeship. The writer cannot retire from the battle; he dies fighting.
Anthony Burgess