Quotes by : Malcolm Bradbury

Madness, genius, originality - it's all the same thing; it's a breaking of our normal value structure....

One can always satisfy oneself, I suppose; it's other people one can't satisfy. One thinks one's way....

Have a little sociological beano. As you said - in sociology one can do anything and call it work.

Treece quite seriously divided the world into writers, who led life as a conscious effort, and people,....

Oh, it must be wonderful to be educated. What does it feel like?''It's like having an operation,' said....

Genitals are a great distraction to scholarship

This was the sort of thing that happened to persons of this sort, sensitives, who fought the world and....

This education we're giving them is the tool of destruction, of course; that's what makes it so painful.....

The trouble with me is, Treece thought, that I'm a liberal humanist who believes in original sin. I think....

With my sort of book there's no resolution, because there's no solution. The problems aren't answered....