“It is, as I say, easy enough to describe Holden's style of narration; but more difficult to explain how it holds our attention and gives us pleasure for the length of a whole novel. For, make no mistake, it's the… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
“J. D. Salinger's Holden Caulfield is a literary descendant of Huck Finn: more educated and sophisticated, the son of affluent New Yorkers, but like Huck a youthful runaway from a world of adult hypocrisy, venality and, to use one of… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria. — David Lodge 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 individual is… — David Lodge 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 matter perhaps” — David Lodge 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 between their… — David Lodge 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, like the… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
“Cica in fiecare grasan se afla cate-un slabanog care se lupta sa iasa la lumina, iar eu unul ii aud strigatele inabusite ori de… — David Lodge 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 a person? ” — David Lodge Copy Share Image
It was Adam Appleby's misfortune that at the moment of awakening from sleep his consciousness was immediately flooded with everything he least wanted to… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
“It was said that the view through the open window above the urinal, straight across the Bay to the Silver Span, was the finest… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
“Our friends started life with too many beliefs -- the penalty of a Catholic upbringing. They were weighted down with beliefs, useless answers to… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way round. — David Lodge Copy Share Image
Perhaps that's what we're all looking for - desire undiluted by habit. — David Lodge Copy Share Image
Language is the net that holds thought trapped within a particular culture. But if one could only strike the ball with sufficient force, with… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
