Quotes by Russell Hoban

“Where they gone for the timber it ben a special place of myn. Where the old track sydls the hy groun sholder. It wer woodit with oak there. Hy groun on 1 side of the track and on the other it sloap...”

“Am I doomed? Flashing darkness is pretty much the same as flashing light really. Fear isnt at all the same as courage but after a certain point perhaps being afraid of everything is the same as bei...”

“After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?”

“An ordinary mirror is silvered at the back but the window of the night train has darkness behind the glass. My face and the faces of other travellers were now mirrored on this darkness in a success...”

“Iyther you dont know nothing or you know too much it dont seam like theres any thing in be twean.”

“All of this comes out of what is now an empty space. There are depths to this. It's a lot to think about. From an empty space the future. If there's no empty space where can one put the future? It ...”

“We make fiction because we are fiction ... It lived us into being and it lives us still.”

“He was thinking what a long and wide thing time is, to have so many happenings in it.”

“I have forgotten more of my life than I remember, and with my forgetting I have lost my being.”

“Dont you know if you keap getting a head of your self youwl jus only fall over your self when you get to where you are going?”

“Who can know anybody?' said the bookshop owner. 'Every person is like thousands of books. New, reprinting, in stock, out of stock, fiction, non-fiction, poetry, rubbish. The lot. Different every da...”

“There were times when it seemed the different parts of him where not all under the same management.”

“The silence sat down with them like an invisible creature with its finger to its lips.”

“I said, 'Then whered the other story come from? . . .'He said, 'It come in to my mynd.'I said, 'You mean you made it up.'He said, 'Wel no I dint make it up you cant make up nothing in your head no ...”

“I said, 'Yes theres a lot to look a head to. Like croaking iron at Widders Dump. We do the croaking and they get the iron.'He said, 'Riddley theres other things to do as wel.'I said, 'Yes and they ...”

“Stil it takes you strange walking in your old foot steps like that. Putting your groan up foot where your chyld foot run nor dint know nothing what wer coming.”

“O what we ben! And what we come to!”

“The things that matter don't necessarily make sense.”

“Have you paused to consider that there is no way out? Each way out of one situation necessarily being the way into another situation.”

“Too-lateness, I realized, has nothing to do with age. Too-lateness is potentially every moment. Or not, depending on the person and the moment. Perhaps there even comes a time when it's no longer t...”