Russell Hoban
Russell Hoban
Russell Conwell Hobanwas an American expatriate writer. His works span many genres, including fantasy, science fiction, mainstream fiction, magical realism, poetry, and children's books. He lived in London, England, from 1969 until his death...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth4 February 1925
CountryUnited States of America
Russell Hoban quotes about
parts seemed
There were times when it seemed to him that the different parts of him were not all under the same management.
horse believe i-believe
I believe that most of us would like to be thought well of by horses.
response dies
Words have a life; without response they die.
dark reflection night
An ordinary mirror is silvered at the back but the window of the night train has darkness behind the glass. My face and the faces of other travellers were now mirrored on this darkness in a succession of stillnesses. Consider this, said the darkness: any motion at any speed is a succession of stillnesses; any section through an action will show just such a plane of stillness as this dark window in which your seeking face is mirrored. And in each plane of stillness is the moment of clarity that makes you responsible for what you do.
zoos freedom animal
The zoo is a prison for animals who have been sentenced without trial and I feel guilty because I do nothing about it. I wanted to see an oyster-catcher, so I was no better than the people who caged the oyster-catcher for me to see.
moving sunday sometimes
Sometimes there's nothing but Sundays for weeks on end. Why can't they move Sunday to the middle of the week so you could put it in the OUT tray on your desk?
god eye ideas
An idea is an eye given by God for the seeing of God. Some of these eyes we cannot bear to look out of; we blind them as quickly as possible.
matter things-that-matter make-sense
The things that matter don't necessarily make sense.
silly loss animal
Nothing to be done really about animals. Anything you do looks foolish. The answer isn't in us. It's almost as if were put here on earth to show how silly they aren't.
cigarette-smoke smoking killing
But when I don't smoke I scarcely feel as if I'm living. I don't feel as if I'm living unless I'm killing myself.
conformity existence mines
Is there an existence that is only mine?
silly animal earth
It's almost as if we're put here on earth to show how silly they aren't.
life-is process
Life is a process of one goneness after another.
generations my-generation
My generation was somewhat between things, neither free nor much supported by whatever held us in.