Jerzy Kosinski
Jerzy Kosinski
Jerzy Kosiński, born Józef Lewinkopf, was an award-winning Polish-American novelist and two-time President of the American Chapter of P.E.N., who wrote primarily in English. Born in Poland, he survived World War II and, as a young man, emigrated to the U.S., where he became a citizen...
NationalityPolish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth14 June 1933
CountryPoland
Jerzy Kosinski quotes about
numbers literature forums
The planned sit-down reception is an artificial forum where one is presented with a limited number of persons with whom he can hold a conversation.
america cards credit
Banks introduced the installment plan. The disappearance of cash and the coming of the credit card changed the shape of life in the United States.
art way fine
I collect human relationships very much the way others collect fine art.
adventure blood giving
My choice of a life of adventure may well have been a result of the fact that action raised my blood pressure giving me enough energy to live.
sunshine garden compassion
Chance was to work in the garden, where he would care for plants and grasses and trees which grew there peacefully. He would be as one on them: quiet, open hearted in the sunshine and heavy when it rained.
dying united-states dies
You don't die in the United States, you underachieve.
father saws wanted
All my father saw was what he wanted to see.
social company units
If we reduce social life to the smallest possible unit we will find that there is no social life in the company of one.
writing attention language
I suppress in my prose any language which calls attention to itself.
hiding
All my life I've been hiding.
littles inspired sexuality
I am inspired by human sexuality. The act itself is mechanical and holds little interest to me.
comfort physical-attraction attraction
Physical comfort has nothing to do with any other comfort.
new-relationship writing accepting
The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author.
photography humanity body
Mapplethorpe presented the body as a sexual object, separating it from the humanity of the person. He added nothing to photography as a medium. I hold his work in low regard.