David Lodge Art Of Fiction Quotes

#1. Sometimes, you have to look back in order to understand the things that lie ahead.

Yvonne Woon

#2. Find out who you are & embrace it. It's so much easier to face criticism when you are comfortable in your own skin.

Amy Adams

#3. But it was there, and studies now show that working-class boys like me do much worse in school because they view schoolwork as a feminine endeavor.

J.D. Vance

#4. I don't think my moped could outrun a cheetah."
"Hun," Claire says. "There are more important things you need to outrun, and a moped isn't going to help you with any of those.

Jonathan Messinger

#5. People who work with me say I have a four-step response to new ideas: rejection, reconsideration, acceptance, ownership. I need to listen more patiently.

Daniel L. Doctoroff

#6. How pleasant to read uncompromised by purpose.

Paula Fox

#7. Some days he walked along the banks of the river that smelled of shit and pesticides bought with World Bank loans.

Arundhati Roy

#8. Writing about race and crime was not new territory for me. But it can be treacherous. So here are my rules: No stereotypes. No generalizations. No explanations. No apologies. Just the facts, ma'am.

Colin Flaherty

#9. When asked what learning was the most necessary, he said, "Not to unlearn what you have learned!"

Diogenes Laertius

#10. I'm a working-class former apprentice electrician; at the age of 14, if you'd told me I would one day be standing on a stage with Mel Brooks, I'd have thought you were off your head. But these things can happen.

John Gordon Sinclair

#11. Builders, raise the ceiling high, Raise the dome into the sky, Hear the wedding song! For the happy groom is near, Tall as Mars, and statelier, Hear the wedding song!

Sappho