Anthony Burgess Quotes about Literature

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Literature ceases to be literature when it commits itself to moral uplift; it becomes moral philosophy or some such dull thing.

Literature ceases to be literature when it commits itself to moral uplift; it becomes moral philosophy or some such dull thing.

Anthony Burgess

Uplifting, Philosophy, Literature

Anthony Burgess (2012). “The Kingdom of the Wicked”, p.4, Allison & Busby

Literature is all, or mostly, about sex.

Anthony Burgess

Sex, Writing, Literature

Anthony Burgess (2012). “Little Wilson and Big God”, p.173, Random House

With both agents and publishers hungry for bestsellers, literature will have to end up as a cottage industry.

Anthony Burgess

Cottages, Agents, Literature

Anthony Burgess (1990). “You've had your time: being the second part of the confessions of Anthony Burgess”, Heinemann Educational Books

That so many writers have been prepared to accept a kind of martyrdom is the best tribute that flesh can pay to the living spirit of man as expressed in his literature. One cannot doubt that the martyrdom will continue to be gladly embraced. To some of us, the wresting of beauty out of language is the only thing in the world that matters.

Anthony Burgess

Men, Doubt, Literature

"English Literature: A Survey for Students". Book by Anthony Burgess, 1958.