Anthony Burgess Quotes.

1. "Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone."
- Quote by Anthony Burgess

2. "Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist."
- Quote by Anthony Burgess

3. "Language exists less to record the actual than to liberate the imagination."
- Quote by Anthony Burgess

4. "The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it."
- Quote by Anthony Burgess

5. "Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions, when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it."
- Quote by Anthony Burgess

6. "If you write fiction you are, in a sense, corrupted. There's a tremendous corruptibility for the fiction writer because you're dealing mainly with sex and violence. These remain the basic themes, they're the basic themes of Shakespeare whether you like it or not."
- Quote by Anthony Burgess

7. "Colonialism. The enforced spread of the rule of reason. But who is going to spread it among the colonizers?"
- Quote by Anthony Burgess

8. "Come with uncle and hear all proper. Hear angel trumpets and devil trombones...you are invited!"
- Quote by Anthony Burgess

9. "Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through."
- Quote by Anthony Burgess

10. "It's always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come from is part of where you're going"
- Quote by Anthony Burgess