Josef Skvorecky Quotes

#1. Things never happen exactly how you think they will.

David Archuleta

#2. He could see the fish and he had only to look at his hands and feel his back against the stern to know that this had truly happened and was not a dream.

Ernest Hemingway,

#3. SINCE OUR GOALS REPRESENT THE THINGS THAT MATTER MOST TO US, SHOULDN'T WE FIGHT FOR THEM?

Michael Hyatt

#4. Even if it's a "talking head documentary" about a social movement or something along those lines, I've always thought of editing the timing and the sense of the piece for the theatrical experience.

Robert Greene

#5. God created a universe where each object is dependent on the other. Nobody is independent. At least, human beings are not.

Girdhar Joshi

#6. A person's got to be scared all the time - of God, if there is one, and of looking like a fool if there isn't.

Josef Skvorecky

#7. Lovers of literature will look for the remains of the golden treasure in that shipwreck on the bottom of the sea of criticism.

Josef Skvorecky

#8. When the Communist Party comes to power, it acts a lot like the mafia: If you are a loyal member in good standing, everything is yours. You're protected, even if you commit a crime.

Josef Skvorecky

#9. Or The Last Exorcism, I researched a lot of real exorcisms. I watched videos of exorcisms, I listened to tapes, and I read actual accounts of priests' logs. I also looked at a lot of the physicality. I would look into fits of hysteria and look at energies of people in manic, hysteric fits.

Ashley Bell

#10. I was always, luckily, only a reader.

Josef Skvorecky

#11. Surely the church is a place where one day's truce ought to be allowed to the dissensions and animosities of mankind.

Edmund Burke

#12. We may think we live for wisdom, but in fact we're living for the the pleasure wisdom brings us.

Josef Skvorecky

#13. Artists hold out the mirror to the bruises on the face of the world.

Josef Skvorecky

#14. A taste for books, which is still the pleasure and glory of my life.

Edward Gibbon

#15. I write in the morning, I walk in the afternoon and I read in the evening. It's a very easy, lovely life.

Margaret Forster

#16. Writers are liars my dear, surely you know that by now?

Neil Gaiman

#17. There is something that falls short of perfection in every book, without exception, something influenced by the age, even something ridiculous; just like everyone, without exception, has weaknesses.

Josef Skvorecky