Solstad's Quotes

#1. One of Solstad's regular "connecting" statements in his narrative is: "Vi skal komme tilbakke til . . . " - "We shall come to-back to . . .

John Freeman

#2. It was a sad and disappointing day when I discovered my Universal Remote Control did not, in fact, control the universe. (Not even remotely.) - MEME

Darynda Jones

#3. I like a twisted sense of humour. On 'A History of Violence,' David Cronenberg and I would be doing the grimmest scenes and laugh a lot.

Viggo Mortensen

#4. There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.

Denis Diderot

#5. He couldn't imagine using the word 'rewarding' about a work of art - for instance that such and such a book has given me so much, taught me so much, etc etc. - but thought solely that it enlightened him, made him see, cynically and withough false expectations, so that he felt he was alive.

Dag Solstad

#6. I can remember in early elementary school when the Russians launched the first satellite. There was still so much unknown about space. People thought Mars was probably populated.

Christa McAuliffe

#7. Realization consists of getting rid of the false idea that one is not realized.

Ramana Maharshi

#8. Sold my soul long ago, nothing left to choose. I will follow Satan. Dancing in the dark.

Lana Del Rey

#9. 'Landfill' by Daughter has calming, rich tones that are only improved upon by the gorgeous voice of Daughter.

Ben Lovett

#10. Our relationship to the past is marked by deep indifference, even if we do say something to the contrary, even if we mean what we say when we say it is a matter of the greatest significance. Because it is a matter of the greatest significance, yet nevertheless we feel bound to it by a sense of duty.

Dag Solstad

#11. A novelist must preserve a childlike belief in the importance of things which common sense considers of no great consequence.

W. Somerset Maugham

#12. It is called cacophobia, Miss Snow. It is a disorder. I blinked at him, trying my best not to laugh hysterically and roll on the floor.

Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

#13. I guess pretty much everything in life is about the perception of the observer. That maybe time just moves the quickest at the end.

Jasmine Warga

#14. We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

George Bernard Shaw

#15. You need to be real enough to be believable, but you don't necessarily have to be real enough to be real. There is a distinction.

Bradley Whitford