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The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon. Anthony Burgess

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A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual. 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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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

I have a great belief in not doing anything unless I'm passionate about it. Anthony Horowitz

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My father was aloof, very strange and very distant. Anthony Horowitz

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I'm not very good at creating worlds. I prefer to write about the world as it is. Anthony Horowitz

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A children's author on a soapbox is not a pleasant sight but I have become drawn into issues, slightly unwillingly, relating to young people, literacy and youth justice: just look at the number of young people we have locked up in prison, and the uselessness of it. Anthony Horowitz

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I fear dying in the middle of a book. It would be so annoying to write 80,000 words and not get to the end. I'm phobic about it. So when I'm writing a book I leave messages all over the house for people to know how the story ends, and then someone can finish it for me. Anthony Horowitz

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