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“It was several decades later that I encountered that footnote, and with it my own ignorance of the Congo’s early history. Then it occurred…

— Adam Hochschild

Joseph Conrad and Heart of Darkness loom huge in my development as a writer. I think I'm always trying to write Heart of Darkness…

— Sabina Murray

You know, I've read Joseph Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness' about fifteen times.

— James Balog

“What was missing in all of them, he thought, was a recognition of Africans as people with projects—lives they were leading, aspirations they were…

— Chinua Achebe

“Conrad is a dream for psychoanalitic critics”

— Chinua Achebe

“The fascination of [Joseph Conrad’s] writing lies in a singular blending of reality with romance – he paints a world of strange skies and…

— John Galsworthy

“--In his themes and techniques, Conrad was a liberator:he eloquently questioned what other people took for granted.”

— Cedric Watts p190

There are books like Darkness at Noon, which from the prose standpoint I don't think is a perfect book. It has flaws. But for…

— David Bezmozgis

“Reading had always been another world for him. Not an escape, since he rarely sought escape ... writers had to confront the world if…

— Dan Simmons

“Everything before the written word was pre-text. From my book previously feared darkness”

— Robert Priest

“If in this address I were to summon all the writers to whom I owe a few things or a great deal, their shadows…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

It’s impossible to read The Poison Belt, written in 1913, and not see in its exterminating vision a shadow of the coming war that…

— Gordon Dahlquist