List of Jerzy Kosinski Quotes

People Say, "well, You Went On Television, It Enlarged Your Readership." It Did Not At All, Not At All. I Might As Well Tell You, I Lost Some Readership, Because The Profound Audience Felt Somehow Bothered By My Too Easy Manner.

[nabokov's] Language Is Made Visible . . . Like A Veil Or Transparent Curtain. You Cannot Help Seeing The Curtain As You Peek Into The Intimate Rooms Behind.

It's Not That You Aren't Likable. On The Contrary. You Are. It's Just That One Wonders If You Haven't Made A Career Out Of Being So Likable.

All My Father Saw Was What He Wanted To See.

I Can Create Countries Just As I Can Create The Actions Of My Characters. That Is Why A Lot Of Travel Seems To Me A Waste Of Time.

Can The Imagination, Any More Than The Boy, Be Held Prisoner ?" - From The Foreword To The 1976 Edition Of "the Painted Bird

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.

A Novelist Has A Specific Poetic License Which Also Applies To His Own Life.

I Was Pushing Myself To Extremes In Order To Discover My Many Selves.

Chance Was To Work In The Garden, Where He Would Care For Plants And Grasses And Trees Which Grew There Peacefully. He Would Be As One On Them: Quiet, Open Hearted In The Sunshine And Heavy When It Rained.

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.

There Must Be No Worse Punishment To A Totalitarian Nation Than The Withdrawal Of Capital.