J. M. Coetzee Quotes About Creation

Quotes about: Creation

• As you see, I do not treat the creation of fiction, that to say the invention and development of fantasies,as a form of abstract thought. I dont wish to deny the uses of the intellect,but sometimes one has the intuition that the intellect by itself will lead one nowhere.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Intuition, Wish, Fiction

  Interview with David Attwell, www.dn.se. December 8, 2003.

• Where civilization entailed the corruption of barbarian virtues and the creation of dependent people, I decided, I was opposed to civilization.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Civilization, People, Barbarians

  J. M. Coetzee (1980). “Waiting for the Barbarians”, Penguin Group USA

• If I, this mortal shell, am going to die, let me at least live on through my creations.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Shells, Creation, Let Me

  "Elizabeth Costello". Book by J. M. Coetzee, 2003.

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