Thursday, March 03, 2005
“The human head is bigger than the globe. It conceives itself as containing more. It can think and rethink itself and ourselves from any desired point outside the gravitational pull of the earth. It starts by writing one thing and later reads itself as something else. The human head is monstrous.”
- Günter Grass (b. 1927), German author: ‘Racing with the Utopias’, first published in “Die Zeit”, June 16, 1978, reprinted in “On Writing and Politics 1967 – 1983”, 194, translated 1985.
“God is a character, a real and consistent being, or He is nothing. If God did a miracle He would deny His own nature and the universe would simply blow up, vanish, become nothing.”
- Joyce Cary (1888 – 1957), British author: interview in “Writers at Work” (First Series, ed. Malcolm Cowley), 1958.
“I would rather have as my patron a host of anonymous citizens digging into their own pockets for the price of a book or a magazine than a small body of enlightened and responsible men administering public funds. I would rather chance my personal vision of truth striking home here and there in the chaos of publication that exists than attempt to filter through a few sets of official, honorably public-spirited scruples.”
- John Updike (b. 1932), American author and critic: testimony given before the House of Representatives Committee on Education and Labor, January 30, 1978, Boston, published in appendix to Updike’s “Hugging the Shore”, 1983.
- Günter Grass (b. 1927), German author: ‘Racing with the Utopias’, first published in “Die Zeit”, June 16, 1978, reprinted in “On Writing and Politics 1967 – 1983”, 194, translated 1985.
“God is a character, a real and consistent being, or He is nothing. If God did a miracle He would deny His own nature and the universe would simply blow up, vanish, become nothing.”
- Joyce Cary (1888 – 1957), British author: interview in “Writers at Work” (First Series, ed. Malcolm Cowley), 1958.
“I would rather have as my patron a host of anonymous citizens digging into their own pockets for the price of a book or a magazine than a small body of enlightened and responsible men administering public funds. I would rather chance my personal vision of truth striking home here and there in the chaos of publication that exists than attempt to filter through a few sets of official, honorably public-spirited scruples.”
- John Updike (b. 1932), American author and critic: testimony given before the House of Representatives Committee on Education and Labor, January 30, 1978, Boston, published in appendix to Updike’s “Hugging the Shore”, 1983.
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