A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life. Jerzy Kosinski Polish Novelist More Jerzy Kosinski Quotes 0
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 Polish Novelist More Jerzy Kosinski Quotes 0
And really the purpose of art - for me, fiction - is to alert, to indicate to stop, to say: Make certain that when you rush through you will not miss the moment which you might have had, or might still have. Jerzy Kosinski Polish Novelist More Jerzy Kosinski Quotes 0
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 Polish Novelist More Jerzy Kosinski Quotes 0
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 Polish Novelist More Jerzy Kosinski Quotes 0
Gatherings and, simultaneously, loneliness are the conditions of a writer's life. Jerzy Kosinski Polish Novelist More Jerzy Kosinski Quotes 0
Going around under an umbrella interferes with one's looking up at the sky. Jerzy Kosinski Polish Novelist More Jerzy Kosinski Quotes 0
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 Polish Novelist More Jerzy Kosinski Quotes 0
I am inspired by human sexuality. The act itself is mechanical and holds little interest to me. Jerzy Kosinski Polish Novelist More Jerzy Kosinski Quotes 0
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. Jerzy Kosinski Polish Novelist More Jerzy Kosinski Quotes 0
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 Polish Novelist More Jerzy Kosinski Quotes 0
I don't fret over lost time - I can always use the situations in a novel. Jerzy Kosinski Polish Novelist More Jerzy Kosinski Quotes 0
I look back into past history, the stored experiences or products of the imagination. I look no further forward than the evening. Jerzy Kosinski Polish Novelist More Jerzy Kosinski Quotes 0
I write for a certain sphere of readers in the United States who on average watch seven and a half hours of multichannel television per day. Jerzy Kosinski Polish Novelist More Jerzy Kosinski Quotes 0
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 Polish Novelist More Jerzy Kosinski Quotes 0
In my photographs it is apparent that there was no posing at the moment I released the shutter. Jerzy Kosinski Polish Novelist More Jerzy Kosinski Quotes 0
It is not sex by itself that interests me, but its particular role in American consciousness, and in my own life. Jerzy Kosinski Polish Novelist More Jerzy Kosinski Quotes 0
Mapplethorpe presented the body as a sexual object, separating it from the humanity of the person. He added nothing to photography as a medium. I hold his work in low regard. Jerzy Kosinski Polish Novelist More Jerzy Kosinski Quotes 0
Persons who have been homeless carry within them a certain philosophy of life which makes them apprehensive about ownership. Jerzy Kosinski Polish Novelist More Jerzy Kosinski Quotes 0
Physical comfort has nothing to do with any other comfort. Jerzy Kosinski Polish Novelist More Jerzy Kosinski Quotes 0
The principle of art is to pause, not bypass. Jerzy Kosinski Polish Novelist More Jerzy Kosinski Quotes 0
The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke. Jerzy Kosinski Polish Novelist More Jerzy Kosinski Quotes 0
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 Polish Novelist More Jerzy Kosinski Quotes 0
Travel gives me the opportunity to walk through the sectors of cities where one can clearly see the passage of time. Jerzy Kosinski Polish Novelist More Jerzy Kosinski Quotes 0