Quotes by : David Lodge

To some people, there is no noise on earth as exciting as the sound of three or four big fan-jet engines....

Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by....

It's a special form of scholarly neurosis,´ said Camel. `He's no longer able to distinguish between....

Think of a ball of steel as large as the world, and a fly alighting on it once every million years. When....

Literature is mostly about sex and not much about having children and life is the other way around.

As is perhaps obvious, Morris Zapp had no great esteem for his fellow-labourers in the vineyards of literature.....

to read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence....

London, December 1915. In the master bedroom (never was the estate agent's epithet more appropriate)....