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
drug want consciousness
It seems that what I really want is a drug that will increase my consciousness of others, not myself.
order self pushing
I was pushing myself to extremes in order to discover my many selves.
boys imagination bird
Can the imagination, any more than the boy, be held prisoner ?" - from the foreword to the 1976 edition of "The Painted Bird
literature moments photograph
In my photographs it is apparent that there was no posing at the moment I released the shutter.
summer spring fall
- Growth has its season. There are spring and summer, but there are also fall and winter. And then spring and summer again. As long as the roots are not severed, all is well and all be well.
rain light weather
In London, the weather would affect me negatively. I react strongly to light. If it is cloudy and raining, there are clouds and rain in my soul.
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.
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.
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.
loneliness being-alone gathering
Gatherings and, simultaneously, loneliness are the conditions of a writer's life.
home psychics people
I do like to live in other people's homes. I enjoy being a guest. I am an inexpensive guest. When one lives in another's home he can enter into the psychic kingdom of that person.