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Thursday, 5 February 2026

The Write Advice 227: ANTHONY BURGESS

 

Writers have to be guilty.  We've got to feel guilty about everything and this guilt provides a dynamo.  And this dynamo charges the creative act so that every time you sit down and write a book you're shedding your guilt about people, about the world or whatever it is.  Once you get rid of this guilt and become a happy person you're no longer an artist.

 

The Dick Cavett Show [2 April 1971]

 

 

 

 

Use the link below to visit the website of THE INTERNATIONAL ANTHONY BURGESS FOUNDATION, an English-based organisation which 'encourages and supports public and scholarly interest in all aspects of the life and work of Anthony Burgess.'  It also operates an archive/performance space in his home town of Manchester.



https://www.anthonyburgess.org/

 

 

 

 

 

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