--- title: "Best David Lodge Quotes" description: "English writer (1935–2025). Browse 59 David Lodge quotes." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b007/author-david-lodge-27708.jpg" --- ![Portrait of David Lodge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b007/author-david-lodge-27708.jpg) # David Lodge (1935–2025) Writer United Kingdom **59** quotes in **268** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet David Lodge was a writer from the United Kingdom, best known for *Small World*. ## Quick Facts About David Lodge Born January 28, 1935 Died January 1, 2025 Nationality United Kingdom Profession Writer Notable works Small World ## About David Lodge English writer (1935–2025). ## Awards & Honors Hawthornden Prize Commander of the Order of the British Empire Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature ## Quotes by David Lodge · Page 2 > [I never did like working out - it bears the same relationship to real sport as masturbation does to real sex.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-lodge/i-never-did-like-working-out-it-bears-the-same-relationship-to-real/) [David Lodge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-lodge/) [Bears](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bears/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/278/david-lodge-11610_bears_i-never-did-like-working-out-it-bears-th_2333231.jpg) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-lodge/intensity-of-experience-is-what-we-re-looking-for-i-think-we-know-we/) [David Lodge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-lodge/) [Abroad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/abroad/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/66c/david-lodge-11610_abroad_intensity-of-experience-is-what-we-re-lo_3112806.jpg) > [Morris read through the letter. Was it a shade too fulsome? No, that was another law of academic life: it is impossible…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-lodge/morris-read-through-the-letter-was-it-a-shade-too-fulsome-no-that-was/) [David Lodge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-lodge/) [Academic](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/academic/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3f3/david-lodge-11610_academic_morris-read-through-the-letter-was-it-a_2977718.jpg) > [I'm a bit of a deconstructionist myself. It's kind of exciting - the last intellectual thrill left. Like sawing through the branch…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-lodge/i-m-a-bit-of-a-deconstructionist-myself-it-s-kind-of-exciting-the/) [David Lodge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-lodge/) [Adventure](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/adventure/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9bb/david-lodge-11610_adventure_i-m-a-bit-of-a-deconstructionist-myself_1779615.jpg) > [That's the attraction of the conference circuit: it's a way of converting work into play, combining professionalism with tourism, and all at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-lodge/that-s-the-attraction-of-the-conference-circuit-it-s-a-way-of/) [David Lodge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-lodge/) [Attraction](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/attraction/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aa7/david-lodge-11610_attraction_that-s-the-attraction-of-the-conference_1507949.jpg) > [“He is well satisfied with his accommodation, which provides all modern amenities in a compact and convenient form, and leaves him the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-lodge/he-is-well-satisfied-with-his-accommodation-which-provides-all-modern/) [David Lodge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-lodge/) [Accommodation](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/accommodation/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e2d/david-lodge-11610_accommodation_he-is-well-satisfied-with-his-accommodat_2505219.jpg) > [Jogging, I believe they call it. It seems to be an epidemic psychological illness afflicting Americans these days. A form of masochism,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-lodge/jogging-i-believe-they-call-it-it-seems-to-be-an-epidemic/) [David Lodge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-lodge/) [Age](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/age/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0f1/david-lodge-11610_age_jogging-i-believe-they-call-it-it-seems_541210.jpg) > [“Song-Mi Lee,...her life wholly dedicated to protecting the great man against the importunities of the academic world and soothing his despair at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-lodge/song-mi-lee-her-life-wholly-dedicated-to-protecting-the-great-man/) [David Lodge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-lodge/) [Great man](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/great-man/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/27f/david-lodge-11610_great-man_song-mi-lee-her-life-wholly-dedicated-to_3127665.jpg) > [Any language is necessarily a finite system applied with different degrees of creativity to an infinite variety of situations, and most of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-lodge/any-language-is-necessarily-a-finite-system-applied-with-different/) [David Lodge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-lodge/) [Coins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/coins/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0c7/david-lodge-11610_coins_any-language-is-necessarily-a-finite-sys_2746689.jpg) > [“Our friends started life with too many beliefs -- the penalty of a Catholic upbringing. They were weighted down with beliefs, useless…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-lodge/our-friends-started-life-with-too-many-beliefs-the-penalty-of-a/) [David Lodge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-lodge/) [Belief](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/belief/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7e8/david-lodge-11610_faith_our-friends-started-life-with-too-many-b_1086040.jpg) > [whhheeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! The scream of jet engines rises to a crescendo on the runways of the world. Every second, somewhere or other, a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-lodge/whhheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-the-scream-of-jet-engines-rises-to-a-crescendo/) [David Lodge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-lodge/) [Air](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/air/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/180/david-lodge-11610_air_whhheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-the-scream-of-jet_3163710.jpg) > [“Niciodata n-am visat mult. Ceea ce inseamna din cate inteleg ca pur si simplu nu-mi amintesc visele, fiindca de visat visam tot…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-lodge/niciodata-n-am-visat-mult-ceea-ce-inseamna-din-cate-inteleg-ca-pur-si/) [David Lodge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-lodge/) [Amor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/amor/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/68b/david-lodge-11610_vise_niciodata-n-am-visat-mult-ceea-ce-inseam_1621009.jpg) > [“What was left was sex in the head, as D.H.Lawrence called it. ... Where else would the human subject have sex but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-lodge/what-was-left-was-sex-in-the-head-as-d-h-lawrence-called-it-where/) [David Lodge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-lodge/) [Desire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/desire/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1ac/david-lodge-11610_desire_what-was-left-was-sex-in-the-head-as-d-h_3097412.jpg) > [“We’re a bundle of incompatible parts, and we make up stories about ourselves to disguise the fact. The mental unity of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-lodge/we-re-a-bundle-of-incompatible-parts-and-we-make-up-stories-about/) [David Lodge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-lodge/) [Identity](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/identity/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0df/david-lodge-11610_identity_we-re-a-bundle-of-incompatible-parts-and_228141.jpg) > [“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.'…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-lodge/i-ve-been-in-love-with-you-for-weeks-there-s-no-such-thing-she-says/) [David Lodge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-lodge/) [Discourse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/discourse/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6fe/david-lodge-11610_love_i-ve-been-in-love-with-you-for-weeks-the_1665847.jpg) > [“The golden rule of fictional prose is that there are no rules - except the ones that each writer sets for him…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-lodge/the-golden-rule-of-fictional-prose-is-that-there-are-no-rules-except/) [David Lodge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-lodge/) [Books](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/books/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/849/david-lodge-11610_books_the-golden-rule-of-fictional-prose-is-th_1840741.jpg) > [“It is, as I say, easy enough to describe Holden's style of narration; but more difficult to explain how it holds our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-lodge/it-is-as-i-say-easy-enough-to-describe-holden-s-style-of-narration/) [David Lodge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-lodge/) [Books](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/books/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/306/david-lodge-11610_books_it-is-as-i-say-easy-enough-to-describe-h_1144626.jpg) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-lodge/i-mean-mentally-you-brace-yourself-for-the-ending-of-a-novel-as-you/) [David Lodge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-lodge/) [Books](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/books/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6e4/david-lodge-11610_books_i-mean-mentally-you-brace-yourself-for-t_1421073.jpg) > [“Life was transparent, literature opaque. Life was open, literature a closed system. Life was composed of things, literature of words. Life was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-lodge/life-was-transparent-literature-opaque-life-was-open-literature-a/) [David Lodge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-lodge/) [Books](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/books/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1e9/david-lodge-11610_books_life-was-transparent-literature-opaque-l_2932615.jpg) ## David Lodge by topic [Books (13)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/books/david-lodge/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-lodge/#itemlist", "name": "David Lodge Quotes", "numberOfItems": 19, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I never did like working out - it bears the same relationship to real sport as masturbation does to real sex.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "David Lodge" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-lodge/i-never-did-like-working-out-it-bears-the-same-relationship-to-real/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/278/david-lodge-11610_bears_i-never-did-like-working-out-it-bears-th_2333231.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/278/david-lodge-11610_bears_i-never-did-like-working-out-it-bears-th_2333231.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/278/david-lodge-11610_bears_i-never-did-like-working-out-it-bears-th_2333231.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I never did like working out - it bears the same relationship to real sport as masturbation does to real sex.” — David Lodge", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Intensity of experience is what we're looking for, I think. 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They were weighted down with beliefs, useless answers to non-questions. to work their way back to the fundamental ones -- what can we know? why is there anything at all? why not nothing? what may we hope? why are we here? what is it all about? -- they had to dismantle all that apparatus of superfluous belief and discard it piece by piece. 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Whhheeeeeeeeeee!", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "David Lodge" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-lodge/whhheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-the-scream-of-jet-engines-rises-to-a-crescendo/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/180/david-lodge-11610_air_whhheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-the-scream-of-jet_3163710.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/180/david-lodge-11610_air_whhheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-the-scream-of-jet_3163710.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/180/david-lodge-11610_air_whhheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-the-scream-of-jet_3163710.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“whhheeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! The scream of jet engines rises to a crescendo on the runways of the world. Every…” — David Lodge", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 12, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Niciodata n-am visat mult. Ceea ce inseamna din cate inteleg ca pur si simplu nu-mi amintesc visele, fiindca de visat visam tot timpul cat dormim sau cel putin asa se spune. E ca si cum as avea un televizor la care nu se uita nimeni si care imi palpaie in cap cat e noaptea de lunga. Canalul viselor. As vrea sa pot sa trag toata chestia asta pe video. Poate ca atunci mi-as da cat de cat seama ce se intampla cu mine. Si nu ma refer la genunchi, ci la cap. La minte. La suflet.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "David Lodge" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-lodge/niciodata-n-am-visat-mult-ceea-ce-inseamna-din-cate-inteleg-ca-pur-si/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/68b/david-lodge-11610_vise_niciodata-n-am-visat-mult-ceea-ce-inseam_1621009.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/68b/david-lodge-11610_vise_niciodata-n-am-visat-mult-ceea-ce-inseam_1621009.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/68b/david-lodge-11610_vise_niciodata-n-am-visat-mult-ceea-ce-inseam_1621009.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Niciodata n-am visat mult. 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Sexual desire was a play of signifiers, an infinite determent and displacement of anticipated pleasure which the brute coupling of the signifieds temporarily interrupted.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "David Lodge" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-lodge/what-was-left-was-sex-in-the-head-as-d-h-lawrence-called-it-where/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1ac/david-lodge-11610_desire_what-was-left-was-sex-in-the-head-as-d-h_3097412.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1ac/david-lodge-11610_desire_what-was-left-was-sex-in-the-head-as-d-h_3097412.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1ac/david-lodge-11610_desire_what-was-left-was-sex-in-the-head-as-d-h_3097412.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“What was left was sex in the head, as D.H.Lawrence called it. ... 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It's a…” — David Lodge", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 16, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“The golden rule of fictional prose is that there are no rules - except the ones that each writer sets for him or herself. Repetition and simplicity worked (usually) for Hemingway's artistic purposes. Variation and decoration worked for Nabokov's, especially in Lolita. This novel takes the form of a brilliant piece of special pleading by a man whose attraction to a certain type of pubescent girl, whom he calls a \"nymphet\", leads him to commit evil deeds. The book aroused controversy on its first publication, and still disturbs, because it gives a seductive eloquence to a child-abuser and murderer. 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For, make no mistake, it's the style that makes the book interesting. The story it tells is episodic, inconclusive and largely made up of trivial events. Yet the language is, by normal literary criteria, very impoverished. Salinger, the invisible ventriloquist who speaks to us through Holden, must say everything he has to say about life and death and ultimate values within the limitations of a seventeen-year-old New Yorker's argot, eschewing poetic metaphors, periodic cadences, fine writing of any kind.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "David Lodge" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-lodge/it-is-as-i-say-easy-enough-to-describe-holden-s-style-of-narration/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/306/david-lodge-11610_books_it-is-as-i-say-easy-enough-to-describe-h_1144626.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/306/david-lodge-11610_books_it-is-as-i-say-easy-enough-to-describe-h_1144626.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/306/david-lodge-11610_books_it-is-as-i-say-easy-enough-to-describe-h_1144626.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“It is, as I say, easy enough to describe Holden's style of narration; but more difficult to explain how it…” — David Lodge", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 18, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“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 only a page or two left in the book, and you get ready to close it. but with a film there's no way of telling, especially nowadays, when films are much more loosely structured, much more ambivalent, than they used to be. There's no way of telling which frame is going to be the last. The film is going along, just as life goes along, people are behaving, doing things, drinking, talking, and we're watching them, and at any point the director chooses, without warning, without anything being resolved, or explained, or wound up, it can just...end.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "David Lodge" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-lodge/i-mean-mentally-you-brace-yourself-for-the-ending-of-a-novel-as-you/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6e4/david-lodge-11610_books_i-mean-mentally-you-brace-yourself-for-t_1421073.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6e4/david-lodge-11610_books_i-mean-mentally-you-brace-yourself-for-t_1421073.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6e4/david-lodge-11610_books_i-mean-mentally-you-brace-yourself-for-t_1421073.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I mean, mentally you brace yourself for the ending of a novel. 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Literature was never about what it appeared to be about, though in the case of the novel cosiderable ingenuity and perception were needed to crack the code of realistic illusion, which was why he had been professionally attracted to the genre (even the dumbest critic understood that Hamlet wasn't about how the guy wanted to kill his uncle, or the Ancient Mariner about cruelty to animals, but it was surprising how many people thought Jane Austen's novels were about finding Mr Right).”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "David Lodge" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-lodge/life-was-transparent-literature-opaque-life-was-open-literature-a/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1e9/david-lodge-11610_books_life-was-transparent-literature-opaque-l_2932615.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1e9/david-lodge-11610_books_life-was-transparent-literature-opaque-l_2932615.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1e9/david-lodge-11610_books_life-was-transparent-literature-opaque-l_2932615.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Life was transparent, literature opaque. 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