Jerzy Kosinski
Jerzy Kosinski

There must be no worse punishment to a totalitarian nation than the withdrawal of capital.

Jerzy Kosinski
Jerzy Kosinski

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
Jerzy Kosinski

The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author.

Jerzy Kosinski
Jerzy Kosinski

The planned sit-down reception is an artificial forum where one is presented with a limited number of persons with whom he can hold a conversation.

Jerzy Kosinski
Jerzy Kosinski

Take a look at the books other people have in their homes.

Jerzy Kosinski
Jerzy Kosinski

Physical comfort has nothing to do with any other comfort.

Jerzy Kosinski
Jerzy Kosinski

It is not sex by itself that interests me, but its particular role in American consciousness, and in my own life.

Jerzy Kosinski
Jerzy Kosinski

I don't fret over lost time - I can always use the situations in a novel.

Jerzy Kosinski
Jerzy Kosinski

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
Jerzy Kosinski

Gatherings and, simultaneously, loneliness are the conditions of a writer's life.

Jerzy Kosinski
Jerzy Kosinski

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
Jerzy Kosinski

A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life.