James Coetzee Quotes & Sayings

He who has no dream is in danger — Jon Kalman Stefansson

God doesn't want all of us to relinquish all of our material possessions. — Echo Bodine

Scientists must venture outside their comfort zones to show the public how cool - and how important - their work really is. — Francis Collins

It's always almost Autumn, down here at Rock Bottom. — Ashly Lorenzana

He was like a sponge, erasing the past, soaking up the future. — Sidney Sheldon

It didn't take me long out there, in the landscapes my father had painted, to realize that as much as I loved my country [Australia], I barely knew it. I'd spent so many years studying the art of our immigrant cultures, and barely any time at all on the one that had been here all along ... So I set myself a crash course and became a pioneer in a new field: desperation conservation. My job became the documentation and preservation of ancient Aboriginal rock art, before the uranium and bauxite companies had a chance to blast it into rubble (pp. 345-346) — Geraldine Brooks

If you take away the cross as an atoning act, you take away Christianity. — R.C. Sproul

We've inherited many ideas about writing that emerged in the eighteenth century, especially an interest in literature as both an expression and an exploration of the self. This development - part of what distinguishes the "modern" from the "early modern" - has shaped the work of many of our most celebrated authors, whose personal experiences indelibly and visibly mark their writing. It's fair to say that the fiction and poetry of many of the finest writers of the past century or so - and I'm thinking here of Conrad, Proust, Lawrence, Joyce, Woolf, Kafka, Plath, Ellison, Lowell, Sexton, Roth, and Coetzee, to name but a few - have been deeply autobiographical. The link between the life and the work is one of the things we're curious about and look for when we pick up the latest book by a favorite author. — James Shapiro