Quotes by Conrad, Joseph

They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. >>

It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. >>

Going home must be like going to render an account. >>

Quotations about Fiction

Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by givi >>

Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence -- a lot passes y >>

What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow-men's existence stro >>

What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow-men's existence strong enough to take upon itself a form of imagined life clearer than reality and whose accumulated verisimilitude of selected episodes puts to shame the pride of documentary history?

Conrad, Joseph