“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
“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
“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 Coins 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 Sexual desire 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
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
“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
whhheeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! The scream of jet engines rises to a crescendo on the runways of the world. Every second, somewhere or other, a… — David Lodge Air 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 Flower 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
“The choice of the point(s) of view from which the story is told is arguably the most important single decision that the… — David Lodge Books 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
“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
“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
