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
curiosity desire trying
to read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another, from one action to another, from one level of a text to another. The text unveils itself before us, but never allows itself to be possessed; and instead of trying to possess it we should take pleasure in its teasing
company laid outside seen walt whitman words
Walt Whitman who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary.
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.
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.
inherently species wrong
These species are not inherently bad. They're just in the wrong place.
committing forecast hours itself next possible predicting seemed weather
The British, he thought, must be gluttons for satire: even the weather forecast seemed to be some kind of spoof, predicting every possible combination of weather for the next twenty-four hours without actually committing itself to anything specific.
across damages far great harm indeed lakes pipes plants power reaching rivers species spread threat
The damages are far reaching - from the shoreline, to the pipes of power plants and municipal waterworks, to the many other lakes and rivers that are under threat and indeed under harm as zebra mussels and many other species spread from the Great Lakes across the continent.
barrier best built coming crude electric fish great invader irony motivation passed proposed river round time
The electric barrier is crude but it's the best thing we have now. The irony is the barrier was first proposed to keep round gobies (another fish invader in the Great Lakes) from colonizing the Mississippi River watershed, but by the time the barrier was built they had already passed it. Now the motivation is to keep the carp from coming from the other direction.
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.
life mostly
Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way round.
age modern cathedrals
Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.
art men dying
I respect a man who can recognize a quotation. It's a dying art.
Every decoding is another encoding.
sports sex real
I never did like working out - it bears the same relationship to real sport as masturbation does to real sex