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
“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
“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 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 Love 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
“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
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
“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
“but the creative juices dry up if they're not kept in circulation.” — David Lodge Creative juices Copy Share Image
“All I'm saying is that there is a generation gap, and I think it revolves around this public/private thing. Our generation --… — David Lodge Generation gap Copy Share Image
“I could never feel like that about any public issue. Sometimes I wish I could. For me, if I'm honest, politics is… — David Lodge Important things 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
Four times, under our educational rules, the human pack is shuffled and cut - at eleven-plus, sixteen-plus, eighteen-plus and twenty-plus - and… — David Lodge Cutting 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
“He is well satisfied with his accommodation, which provides all modern amenities in a compact and convenient form, and leaves him the… — David Lodge Space Copy Share Image
“What are we all looking for? Happiness? One knows that doesn't last. Distraction, perhaps distraction from the ugly facts: that there is… — David Lodge Death 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
“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
“As is perhaps obvious, Morris Zapp had no great esteem for his fellow-labourers in the vineyards of literature. They seemed to him… — David Lodge Academia 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 Coins Copy Share Image
“What do we mean - it is a common term of praise - when we say that a book is "original"? Not,… — David Lodge Books Copy Share Image
“For some days, now, the termperature had wavered between freezing and thawing and it was difficult to tell whether the sediment thickening… — David Lodge Rain Copy Share Image
