Jerzy Kosinski Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• There are many types of participation. One can observe so intensely that one becomes part of the action, but without being an active participant.

  Jerzy Kosinski

  Literature, Action, Type

  Jerzy Kosinski (2012). “Oral Pleasure: Kosinski as Storyteller: Kosinski as Storyteller”, p.270, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• Homelessness is a part of our American system. There should be nothing wrong with this condition as long as the individual is not sentenced to unnecessary suffering and punishment.

  Jerzy Kosinski

  Punishment, Usa, Long

• As I go to sleep I remember what my father said-that one can never be sure if one will awake. The way my health is now, this is becoming more and more real.

  Jerzy Kosinski

  Father, Real, Sleep

• I do like to live in other people's homes. I enjoy being a guest. I am an inexpensive guest. When one lives in another's home he can enter into the psychic kingdom of that person.

  Jerzy Kosinski

  Home, Psychics, People

• I look back into past history, the stored experiences or products of the imagination. I look no further forward than the evening.

  Jerzy Kosinski

  Past, Imagination, Looks

• In London, the weather would affect me negatively. I react strongly to light. If it is cloudy and raining, there are clouds and rain in my soul.

  Jerzy Kosinski

  Rain, Clouds, Light

• Banks introduced the installment plan. The disappearance of cash and the coming of the credit card changed the shape of life in the United States.

  Jerzy Kosinski

  America, United States, Cards

• In my photographs it is apparent that there was no posing at the moment I released the shutter.

  Jerzy Kosinski

  Literature, Moments, Photograph

• The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author.

  Jerzy Kosinski

  Writing, New Relationship, Literature

• There must be no worse punishment to a totalitarian nation than the withdrawal of capital.

  Jerzy Kosinski

  Punishment, Withdrawal, Literature

• Physical comfort has nothing to do with any other comfort.

  Jerzy Kosinski

  Comfort, Literature, Physical Attraction

• I am inspired by human sexuality. The act itself is mechanical and holds little interest to me.

  Jerzy Kosinski

  Literature, Littles, Inspired

  Jerzy Kosinski (2012). “Oral Pleasure: Kosinski as Storyteller: Kosinski as Storyteller”, p.271, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• If we reduce social life to the smallest possible unit we will find that there is no social life in the company of one.

  Jerzy Kosinski

  Literature, Social, Company

• A trait which differentiated New York from European cities was the incredible freedom and ease in which life, including sexual life, could be carried on, on many levels.

  Jerzy Kosinski

  New York, Europe, Cities

  Jerzy Kosinski (2012). “Oral Pleasure: Kosinski as Storyteller: Kosinski as Storyteller”, p.269, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• I don't fret over lost time - I can always use the situations in a novel.

  Jerzy Kosinski

  Writing, Use, Literature

• The planned sit-down reception is an artificial forum where one is presented with a limited number of persons with whom he can hold a conversation.

  Jerzy Kosinski

  Numbers, Literature, Forums

• It is not sex by itself that interests me, but its particular role in American consciousness, and in my own life.

  Jerzy Kosinski

  Sex, Roles, Literature

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