David Lodge Quotes

Walt Whitman who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary. - David Lodge

Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria. - David Lodge

These species are not inherently bad. They're just in the wrong place. - David Lodge

The electric barrier is crude but it's the best thing we have now. The irony is the barrier was first proposed to keep round gobies (another fish invader in the Great Lakes) from colonizing the Mississippi River watershed, but by the time the barrier was built they had already passed it. Now the motivation is to keep the carp from coming from the other direction. - David Lodge

The British, he thought, must be gluttons for satire: even the weather forecast seemed to be some kind of spoof, predicting every possible combination of weather for the next twenty-four hours without actually committing itself to anything specific. - David Lodge

She was a very funny writer but also a very thoughtful one. She made writers think and she made readers think. She was constantly playing on the difference between God and the writer. - David Lodge

Morris read through the letter. Was it a shade too fulsome? No, that was another law of academic life: it is impossible to be excessive in flattery of one's peers. - David Lodge

Any language is necessarily a finite system applied with different degrees of creativity to an infinite variety of situations, and most of the words and phrases we use are ''prefabricated'' in the sense that we don't coin new ones every time we speak. - David Lodge

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