Anthony Burgess Quotes

“His past, again like Dali’s, had to be mythologised. For, let’s face it, his lower-middle-class upbringing was not exactly Angela’s Ashes,”
― Roger Lewis, Anthony Burgess: A Biography

“There’s an end-of-empire atmosphere about Burgess; of high Victorian imperialism fading away in a remote outpost.”
― Roger Lewis, Anthony Burgess: A Biography

“One of the reasons I live abroad is because, as a writer, I can see England better when removed from it.”
― Roger Lewis, Anthony Burgess: A Biography

“1966   Spring: goes to America (without Lynne) for conference on literary translation at Long Island University, New York.”
― Roger Lewis, Anthony Burgess: A Biography

“The Right to an Answer is a further anatomy of the Britain Burgess personally found waiting for him on his return from the East.”
― Roger Lewis, Anthony Burgess: A Biography

“Those left at home, the Amises, Murdochs, Drabbles and Byatts, subsisting in an England that has ‘been too cosy, too easy to live in’, have avoided the shocks of the life overseas and hence have had to ‘make literature out of suburban adultery’.”
― Roger Lewis, Anthony Burgess: A Biography