The 21st chapter gives the novel the quality of genuine fiction, an art founded on the principle that human beings change. ----- "A Clockwork Orange Resucked" intro to first full American version 1986
Anthony BurgessSenseless violence is a prerogative of youth, which has much energy but little talent for the constructive.
Anthony BurgessWith both agents and publishers hungry for bestsellers, literature will have to end up as a cottage industry.
Anthony BurgessA man can write one book that can be great, but this doesn't make him a great writer-just the writer of a great book. . . I think a writer has to extend very widely, as well as plunge very deep, to be a great novelist.
Anthony Burgess