39 Pulp Quotes for You to Enjoy

Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there's humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a man repeatedly running into a wall until he was a bloody pulp, after a while it would make you laugh because it becomes absurd. David Lynch

Life You Man Ignorance Humor Saw Laugh Would Running Struggling He Absurd Absurdity Like Most Until Make Because Becomes Repeatedly Bloody Wall After While Pulp

Contessa, a.k.a. Baboushka, was a leader in the Russian mafia. Hardnosed, ruthless... very much her own woman. She's a martial artist, marksman, and good with guns and gadgets as any good pulp spy should be. She's supported by her constant companion Gyorgy Gyorgyov, an old friend of her family who was, in fact, her KGB handler and inventor. Antony Johnston

Good Family Woman Gadgets Old Leader Own Constant Mafia Guns Martial Russian Ruthless Inventor Fact Supported She Friend Spy Very Any Artist In Fact Old Friend Much Should Who Companion Her Pulp

'Codename Baboushka' is an action-packed modern pulp spy thriller, in the sort of British tradition of 'Modesty Blaise', New Avengers and of course James Bond. It's a book about Contessa Annika Malikova, the last of a noble Russian line and an enigmatic, mysterious figure in New York high society. Antony Johnston

Book Society High About Russian Thriller Mysterious Noble New Sort Course Tradition Line Spy York Modern New York James James Bond Avengers Modesty Figure Enigmatic Bond Last British Pulp

It's not highly intellectual material. I'm dedicating it to the pulp fiction of the past. Bruce Boxleitner

Past Pulp Fiction Highly Material Intellectual Fiction Dedicating Pulp

Every Friday, my dad would rent three videos. Me and my brother would ask for something with guns or fighting, but my dad would say, 'Come on, think about it.' He'd choose more involving films like 'Pulp Fiction,' and at the end of the night, we'd agree that they were great. Christian Cooke

Great Me Videos Three Fighting Every Think Films Pulp Fiction Say Would Brother Guns About Something More He Come Like Involving Rent Were Friday End Fiction Ask Choose Agree Dad Night Pulp

It took me a lot of times watching it that I started to appreciate 'Pulp Fiction.' Christoph Waltz

Me Pulp Fiction Took Lot Times Fiction Started Watching Appreciate Pulp

I grew up reading comic books, pulp books, mystery and science fiction and fantasy. I'm a geek; I make no pretensions otherwise. It's the stuff that I love writing about. I like creating worlds. David S. Goyer

The many magazines, ranging from pulp to slick, that used to serve as both farm teams for writers and lures to readers, with hundreds of short stories every month, don't exist. Most of the doors for new people have been sealed. Donald E. Westlake

People Doors Farm Every Slick Month Hundreds Magazines Both Writers New Most Readers Been Exist New People The Doors Short Stories Short Stories Used Sealed Many Teams Serve Pulp

Adapted from the novel by L. Ron Hubbard, who cranked out sci-fi pulp by the cubic ton, 'Battlefield Earth' has the musty feel of the days when the genre's highlight was Flash Gordon. Elvis Mitchell

Earth Battlefield Out Highlight Feel Days Genre Gordon Sci-Fi Flash Ron Who Novel Ton Adapted Pulp

Every new medium has, within a short time of its introduction, been condemned as a threat to young people. Pulp novels would destroy their morals, TV would wreck their eyesight, video games would make them violent. Hanna Rosin

Video Games Time People Young Every Medium Destroy TV Would Introduction Eyesight Threat Wreck Morals New Make Within Condemned Been Short Short Time Young People Them Video Games Novels Violent Pulp

Hawkwind are one of those bands that people introduce you to because you don't see them on the covers of magazines. I'd heard 'Silver Machine' but Russell Senior, who was in Pulp, got me into them. They had a song called 'Master Of The Universe' and we nicked the title in 1985 for one of our songs. Jarvis Cocker

Me You People Song Master Universe Our Machine Those Introduce See Magazines Russell Silver Had Songs Because Got Covers Heard Bands Senior Title Them Who Pulp

When I was in Pulp, I actively did more TV stuff because that was during the Great Britpop Wars, and it seemed important to prove that indie people could speak. That war doesn't exist anymore. Jarvis Cocker

War Great People Speak Important TV Indie Seemed More Could Stuff Because Prove Exist Did Anymore Wars Actively Pulp

Pulp existed for 12 years before we got famous. Now, you could say that was just lack of imagination, but it's some kind of quality isn't it? Tenacity. You could also say it was sloth. Jarvis Cocker

You Quality Before Imagination Say Kind Sloth Some Tenacity Could Also Got Years Existed Lack Just Famous Now Pulp

Like everybody at that age, I read an awful lot of pulp fiction. But at the same time, I also read quite a bit of history and read that as much for pleasure as part of a curriculum. John Hume

I once read Updike after writing a first draft, and I wanted to put my own book on the fire. I've since learned to read utter crap while I'm writing: pulp is the thing. John Niven

Book Writing Fire First Own Once My Own Put Since Read Learned Wanted Crap After While Utter Thing Draft Pulp

Indeed, the hype around 'Watchmen' is its curse. If you want to enjoy the comic for what it is, ignore the attributions of literariness and the novelistic pretensions with which some critics have imbued it. This isn't high culture, and it doesn't pretend to be. It's good, juicy pulp fiction with a little nuclear apocalypse thrown in. Lydia Millet

Good You Culture Hype Enjoy Pulp Fiction Indeed High Pretend Critics Some Thrown Around Comic Juicy Curse Want Fiction Which Little Apocalypse Ignore Nuclear Watchmen Pulp

I wouldn't define myself as the girl from 'Pulp Fiction.' Maria de Medeiros

Myself Girl Pulp Fiction Define Fiction Pulp

'Floating Worlds,' published in 1975 and the lone science fiction novel by acclaimed historical novelist Cecelia Holland, was unique in being completely devoid of the usual pulp influences present in much space opera up to that time. Pamela Sargent

Time Science Space Worlds Lone Opera Devoid Science Fiction Historical Up Being Fiction Influences Holland Much Unique Usual Novel Novelist Floating Published Present Pulp

'Pulp Fiction' is my favorite movie of all time. Paul Pierce

Time Pulp Fiction Favorite Favorite Movie All-Time Fiction Movie Pulp

Pulp Quotes

No more pulp quotes