“but the creative juices dry up if they're not kept in circulation.” — David Lodge Creative Copy Share Image
“perhaps it will I said perhaps it will be wonderful perhaps even though it won't be like you think perhaps that won't… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
I never did like working out - it bears the same relationship to real sport as masturbation does to real sex. — David Lodge Bears Copy Share Image
“Literature is mostly about having sex and not having children. Life is the other way around” — David Lodge Books Copy Share Image
Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria. — David Lodge Age Copy Share Image
Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way round. — David Lodge Books Copy Share Image
“wandering between two worlds, one lost, the other powerless to be born.” — David Lodge Copy Share Image
Walt Whitman, he who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary. — David Lodge Company Copy Share Image
“When does a novel begin? The question is almost as difficult to answer as the question, when does the human embryo become… — David Lodge Books Copy Share Image
Jogging, I believe they call it. It seems to be an epidemic psychological illness afflicting Americans these days. A form of masochism,… — David Lodge Age Copy Share Image
“He is well satisfied with his accommodation, which provides all modern amenities in a compact and convenient form, and leaves him the… — David Lodge Accommodation Copy Share Image
“Song-Mi Lee,...her life wholly dedicated to protecting the great man against the importunities of the academic world and soothing his despair at… — David Lodge Great man Copy Share Image
Any language is necessarily a finite system applied with different degrees of creativity to an infinite variety of situations, and most of… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
That's the attraction of the conference circuit: it's a way of converting work into play, combining professionalism with tourism, and all at… — David Lodge Attraction Copy Share Image
“Think of a ball of steel as large as the world, and a fly alighting on it once every million years. When… — David Lodge Eternity Copy Share Image
“So they stood upon the shores of Faith and felt the old dogmas and certainties ebbing away rapidly under their feet and… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
“...my big depression. For six months I languished at the bottom of a deep hole, like the shaft of a waterless well,… — David Lodge Depression Copy Share Image
“I've been in love with you for weeks.' There's no such thing,' she says. 'It's a rhetorical device. It's a bourgeois fallacy.'… — David Lodge Discourse Copy Share Image
“Our friends started life with too many beliefs -- the penalty of a Catholic upbringing. They were weighted down with beliefs, useless… — David Lodge Belief Copy Share Image
“Niciodata n-am visat mult. Ceea ce inseamna din cate inteleg ca pur si simplu nu-mi amintesc visele, fiindca de visat visam tot… — David Lodge Amor Copy Share Image
“What was left was sex in the head, as D.H.Lawrence called it. ... Where else would the human subject have sex but… — David Lodge Desire Copy Share Image
“We’re a bundle of incompatible parts, and we make up stories about ourselves to disguise the fact. The mental unity of the… — David Lodge Identity Copy Share Image
whhheeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! The scream of jet engines rises to a crescendo on the runways of the world. Every second, somewhere or other, a… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
Paraphrase, in the sense of summary, is as indispensable to the novel-critic as close analysis is to the critic of lyric poetry.… — David Lodge Analysis Copy Share Image
“In fiction, especially in texts that are framed by a storytelling situation, aporia is a favourite device of narrators to arouse curiosity… — David Lodge Nature Copy Share Image
“I mean, mentally you brace yourself for the ending of a novel. As you're reading, you're aware of the fact that there's… — David Lodge Books Copy Share Image
“Life was transparent, literature opaque. Life was open, literature a closed system. Life was composed of things, literature of words. Life was… — David Lodge Books Copy Share Image
“I can see myself acquiring bad habits from living here. My little house is equipped with a TV, and I've watched a… — David Lodge Bad habit Copy Share Image
“London, December 1915. In the master bedroom (never was the estate agent's epithet more appropriate) of Flat 21, Carlyle Mansions, Cheyne Walk,… — David Lodge Arts Copy Share Image
“It was the excitement, the richness of the whole experience, the mixture of pleasure and danger and freedom and the sun. You… — David Lodge Avant garde Copy Share Image
“The golden rule of fictional prose is that there are no rules - except the ones that each writer sets for him… — David Lodge Books Copy Share Image
“It is, as I say, easy enough to describe Holden's style of narration; but more difficult to explain how it holds our… — David Lodge Books Copy Share Image
“When April with its sweet showers has pierced the drought of March to the root, and bathed every vein of earth with… — David Lodge Academia Copy Share Image
Perhaps that's what we're all looking for - desire undiluted by habit. — David Lodge Desire Copy Share Image
It's the only thing that keeps me going these days, travelling. Changes of scene, changes of faces — David Lodge Faces Copy Share Image
