David Lodge
David Lodge
David John Lodge CBEis an English author and literary critic born in London...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth28 January 1935
David Lodge quotes about
inherently species wrong
These species are not inherently bad. They're just in the wrong place.
life mostly
Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way round.
constantly difference funny god playing readers thoughtful writer writers
She was a very funny writer but also a very thoughtful one. She made writers think and she made readers think. She was constantly playing on the difference between God and the writer.
bring bunch great might species
We might have been able to say 20 years ago that it was unanticipated consequence, but we know now that a shipload could bring in a bunch of invasive species into the Great Lakes.
should backwards
Life, after all, should go forwards, not backwards.
desire habit
Perhaps that's what we're all looking for - desire undiluted by habit.
faces scene these-days
It's the only thing that keeps me going these days, travelling. Changes of scene, changes of faces
Every decoding is another encoding.
age modern cathedrals
Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.
believe epidemics age
Jogging, I believe they call it. It seems to be an epidemic psychological illness afflicting Americans these days. A form of masochism, like the flagellantes in the Middle Ages.
information world modern
Information is the religion of the modern world.
horse eye air
whhheeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! The scream of jet engines rises to a crescendo on the runways of the world. Every second, somewhere or other, a plane touches down, with a puff of smoke from scorched tyre rubber, or rises in the air, leaving a smear of black fumes dissolving in its wake. From space, the earth might look to a fanciful eye like a huge carousel, with planes instead of horses spinning round its circumference, up and down, up and down. Whhheeeeeeeeeee!
communication creativity phrases
Any language is necessarily a finite system applied with different degrees of creativity to an infinite variety of situations, and most of the words and phrases we use are "prefabricated" in the sense that we don't coin new ones every time we speak.
ends walt company
Walt Whitman, he who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary.