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Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use their energy creatively so they do the opposite and destroy.

~Anthony Burgess

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I enjoy journalism; anybody does. You see the results immediately; you've got an immediate audience instead of having to wait for your audience as you do if you're writing a book, and you get a bit of money coming in, and you can see more clearly how you're paying the bills. But it's not a good position for the serious novelist to be in.

~Anthony Burgess

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I went abroad to Malaya and came back and tended naturally to gravitate towards the south, I suppose, near London where things seemed to be going on; but I'm still a Lancashire man, and what I want to write someday is a novel about Manchester. Very much a regional novel.

~Anthony Burgess

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When I first began to write fiction, I didn't think I was a comic writer; I thought I was a serious writer. I was surprised when the first novel I wrote was regarded as a funny novel.

~Anthony Burgess

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I'm a natural clown, I suppose, in writing, and one has to accept that; I can't do anything about it. I have written one or two novels which are not specifically funny. I wrote a study of Shakespeare which was not intended to be funny, but some people regard it as such.

~Anthony Burgess

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Novelist

Born: February 25th, 1917

Died: November 25th, 1993

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