51 Quotes by Stephen Vizinczey

You tell me your favorite novelists and I'll tell you whom you vote for, or whether you vote at all.

Great writers are not those who tell us we shouldn’t play with fire, but those who make our fingers burn.

Dictatorship is a constant lecture instructing you that your feelings, your thoughts and desires are of no account, that you are a nobody and must live as you are told by other people who desire and think for you

Whenever you hear the word "inevitable", watch out! An enemy of humanity has identified himself.

The war against Vietnam is only the ghastliest manifestation of what I'd call imperial provincialism, which afflicts America's whole culture-aware only of its own history, insensible to everything which isn't part of the local atmosphere.

Art experts are unfailingly opposed to Art for the simple reason that they are interested in Art - but Art is not interested in Art. Art is interested in life.

Thou shalt not let a day pass without rereading something great.

Perhaps in a book review it is not out of place to note that the safety of the state depends on cultivating the imagination.

Consistency is a virtue for trains.