Books Quote by David Lodge

“I believe that books must go through a fairly slow birthing process...”

— Margaret Westhaven

“No one relishes the prospect of humans being conceived artificially. But can you offer an alternative?”

— Ted Chiang

“Conception is the beginning of human life. From the time that an ovum is fertilized a new life begins that is neither that of…

— Declaration on Procured Abortion Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith 1974

“The way we understand human life depends on what conception we have of the human story.”

— Craig G. Bartholomew

“The tale of someone's life begins before they are born.”

— Michael Wood

“... most people since the dawn of human time have been simply programmed by their birth to a short and brutish life that is…

— Michael Harrington

“Just as the embryo recapitulates in brief the evolution of the species, so did Suzanne recapitulate all the styles of her lovers.”

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Are these the birthing days of the end? Or are they perhaps the birth of a new beginning?”

— Anonymous

“He wrote that if great sex were necessary to make babies, humans would be fossils by now.”

— Randi Hutter Epstein

“Birth is not a beginning and death is not an ending. They are merely points on a continuum.”

— Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

“A novel is born several times and dies several times, before it takes its final life form.”

— Manjiri Prabhu

“We are, whether by nature or nurture, episodic. We find a problem and then we fix it. We want there to be a beginning…

— J.D. Trafford