“but the creative juices dry up if they're not kept in circulation.” — David Lodge Creative 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
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
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
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
“Literature is mostly about having sex and not having children. Life is the other way around” — David Lodge Books 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 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 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
“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
“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
“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
“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 Russian 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
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 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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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 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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
