I suppress in my prose any language which calls attention to itself. — Jerzy Kosinski Attention Copy Share Image
I don't fret over lost time - I can always use the situations in a novel. — Jerzy Kosinski Books Copy Share Image
“People prefer to avoid confronting deformity and when they do it's only for kicks.” — Jerzy Kosiński Deformity Copy Share Image
“There's a place beyond words where experience first occurs to which I always want to return.” — Jerzy Kosiński Experience Copy Share Image
Photography was the first foreign language of my artistic expression. — Jerzy Kosinski Art Copy Share Image
A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life. — Jerzy Kosinski License Copy Share Image
“The Germans puzzled me. What a waste. Was such a destitute, cruel world worth ruling?” — Jerzy Kosiński Cruel world Copy Share Image
Travel gives me the opportunity to walk through the sectors of cities where one can clearly see the passage of time. — Jerzy Kosinski Cities Copy Share Image
I write for a certain sphere of readers in the United States who on average watch seven and a half hours of… — Jerzy Kosinski Average Copy Share Image
“No one can help me find answers, least of all someone who claims he's found a solution to life.” — Jerzy Kosiński Answer Copy Share Image
- Growth has its season. There are spring and summer, but there are also fall and winter. And then spring and summer… — Jerzy Kosinski Fall Copy Share Image
If we reduce social life to the smallest possible unit we will find that there is no social life in the company… — Jerzy Kosinski Business Copy Share Image
“The recent Dictionary of Occupational Titles lists over twenty thousand specialized professions in America; being a millionaire is not one of them.” — Jerzy Kosiński Career Copy Share Image
“As a boy I got the idea that death was an animal which lay curled inside waiting to swallow us.” — Jerzy Kosiński Death Copy Share Image
“I have always suspected everyone who likes me of having poor judgment. I despise them for being so easily taken in.” — Jerzy Kosiński Despise Copy Share Image
“At first I was afraid that I would be left defenseless, that I would babble aloud the things I've always been terrified… — Jerzy Kosiński Fear Copy Share Image
“I remember how, as a boy, I used to collect the cork tips of my father's cigarettes and stick them in my… — Jerzy Kosiński Memories Copy Share Image
“The native calls the baobab 'the devil tree' because he claims that the devil, getting tangled in its branches, punished by the… — Jerzy Kosiński Trees Copy Share Image
She seemed to belong to that pagan, primitive kingdom of birds and forests where everything was infinitely abundant, wild, blooming, and royal… — Jerzy Kosinski Bird Copy Share Image
People say, "Well, you went on television, it enlarged your readership." It did not at all, not at all. I might as… — Jerzy Kosinski Audience Copy Share Image
Physical comfort has nothing to do with any other comfort. — Jerzy Kosinski Attraction Copy Share Image
“Our language has lost its ability to convey the spontaneous.” — Jerzy Kosiński Language Copy Share Image
“There should be no promise of a plot. Plot is extraordinary, while chance is ordinary.” — Jerzy Kosiński Chance Copy Share Image
Take whatever you can from others, and when there is nothing left, forget about them. — Jerzy Kosinski Forget Copy Share Image
Gatherings and, simultaneously, loneliness are the conditions of a writer's life. — Jerzy Kosinski Life Copy Share Image
When people claim to know who I am, I can no longer act freely. — Jerzy Kosinski Claim Copy Share Image
“My cynicism continuously undermines her faith in her own ability to master her moods.” — Jerzy Kosiński Cynicism Copy Share Image
“That's why she keeps her nails long, she says, to be able to scratch and claw.” — Jerzy Kosiński Nails Copy Share Image
You don't die in the United States, you underachieve. — Jerzy Kosinski Death and dying Copy Share Image
I was pushing myself to extremes in order to discover my many selves. — Jerzy Kosinski Extremes Copy Share Image
I am inspired by human sexuality. The act itself is mechanical and holds little interest to me. — Jerzy Kosinski Humans Copy Share Image
I collect human relationships very much the way others collect fine art. — Jerzy Kosinski Art Copy Share Image
There must be no worse punishment to a totalitarian nation than the withdrawal of capital. — Jerzy Kosinski Punishment Copy Share Image
I always have a sense of trembling, but so does a compass, after all. — Jerzy Kosinski Compass Copy Share Image
I can create countries just as I can create the actions of my characters. That is why a lot of travel seems… — Jerzy Kosinski Action Copy Share Image
I look back into past history, the stored experiences or products of the imagination. I look no further forward than the evening. — Jerzy Kosinski Evening Copy Share Image
