Stephen Vizinczey
Stephen Vizinczey
Stephen Vizinczey, originally István Vizinczey, is an author and writer...
NationalityHungarian
ProfessionAuthor
conscience form good refrain rest wicked
The good conscience of the wicked rest on all the villainies they refrain form committing.
crook dream man
The dream of a crook is a man with a dream.
book character writing
Most bad books get that way because their authors are engaged in trying to justify themselves. If a vain author is an alcoholic, then the most sympathetically portrayed character in his book will be an alcoholic. This sort of thing is very boring for outsiders.
people culture assumption
We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them.
believe men church
Is it possible that I am not alone in believing that in the dispute between Galileo and the Church, the Church was right and the centre of man's universe is the earth?
novelists vote your-favorite
You tell me your favorite novelists and I'll tell you whom you vote for, or whether you vote at all.
consistency want philosopher
Consistency is a virtue for trains: what we want from a philosopher is insights, whether he comes by them consistently or not.
play fire fingers
Great writers are not those who tell us we shouldn’t play with fire, but those who make our fingers burn.
ignorance race genius
The truth is that our race survived ignorance; it is our scientific genius that will do us in.
real character names
The only virtue a character needs to possess between hardcovers, even if he bears a real person's name, is vitality: if he comes to life in our imaginations, he passes the test.
thinking people feelings
Dictatorship is a constant lecture instructing you that your feelings, your thoughts and desires are of no account, that you are a nobody and must live as you are told by other people who desire and think for you
creative humanity enemy
Whenever you hear the word "inevitable", watch out! An enemy of humanity has identified himself.
war america atmosphere
The war against Vietnam is only the ghastliest manifestation of what I'd call imperial provincialism, which afflicts America's whole culture-aware only of its own history, insensible to everything which isn't part of the local atmosphere.
art simple experts
Art experts are unfailingly opposed to Art for the simple reason that they are interested in Art - but Art is not interested in Art. Art is interested in life.