“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 Said 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 Lost 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
It's the only thing that keeps me going these days, travelling. Changes of scene, changes of faces — David Lodge Faces Copy Share Image
To read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another — 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
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
“So they stood upon the shores of Faith and felt the old dogmas and certainties ebbing away rapidly under their feet and… — David Lodge Faith Felt 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… — David Lodge Amor 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'm a bit of a deconstructionist myself. It's kind of exciting - the last intellectual thrill left. Like sawing through the branch… — David Lodge Adventure Copy Share Image
“Skaz is a rather appealing Russian word (suggesting "jazz" and "scat", as in "scat-singing", to the English ear) used to designate a… — 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… — David Lodge Kept Eyes 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
“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
“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
“J. D. Salinger's Holden Caulfield is a literary descendant of Huck Finn: more educated and sophisticated, the son of affluent New Yorkers,… — David Lodge New yorkers 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… — David Lodge Around the world Copy Share Image
to read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another, from one action… — David Lodge Action 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
It was Adam Appleby's misfortune that at the moment of awakening from sleep his consciousness was immediately flooded with everything he least… — David Lodge Adam 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
Perhaps that's what we're all looking for - desire undiluted by habit. — David Lodge Desire 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
“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
Morris read through the letter. Was it a shade too fulsome? No, that was another law of academic life: it is impossible… — David Lodge Academic Copy Share Image
“Intensity of experience is what we're looking for, I think. We know we won't find it at home any more, but there's… — David Lodge Hope Copy Share Image
