Quotes by Josef Skvorecky

About Josef Skvorecky:

Josef Škvorecký was a Czech-Canadian writer and publisher. He spent half of his life in Canada, publishing and supporting banned Czech literature during the communist era. Škvorecký was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 1980. He and his wife were long-time supporters of Czech dissident writers before the fall of communism in that country. Škvorecký's fiction deals with several themes: the horrors of totalitarianism and repression, the expatriate experience, and the miracle of jazz.
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There is beauty everywhere on earth, but there is greater beauty in those places where one feels that sense of ease which comes from no longer having to put off one’s dreams until some improbable future – a future inexorably shrinking away; where...

Josef Skvorecky

We may think we live for wisdom, but in fact we're living for the the pleasure wisdom brings us.

Josef Skvorecky

There is something that falls short of perfection in every book, without exception, something influenced by the age, even something ridiculous; just like everyone, without exception, has weaknesses.

Josef Skvorecky

Lovers of literature will look for the remains of the golden treasure in that shipwreck on the bottom of the sea of criticism.

Josef Skvorecky

Author Bio

  • NameJosef Skvorecky
  • Descriptionczech houmorist
  • AliasesJosef Skvorecky
  • BornSeptember 27, 1924
  • DiedJanuary 3, 2012
  • CountryCzech Republic
  • ProfessionWriter; Linguist; Translator; Publisher
  • WorksZbab?lci
  • AwardsChevalier Des Arts Et Des Lettres?; Guggenheim Fellowship; Order Of The White Lion; Member Of The Order Of Canada; Neustadt International Prize For Literature