Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
And it's impossible for me to read Henry James.
Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.
The short story is the literature of the nomad.
Who would not give up wit for power and beauty?
Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
There are no small churches, just small people.
Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard.
Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
If we make anything that lasts, it outlives us.
Literature ... is the rediscovery of childhood.
Good literature makes your head throb heartlike
The sermon is now the true poppy of literature.
All good Literature rests primarily on insight.
What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
How can any man be weak who dares to be at all?
My sore throats are always worse than anyone's.
A blunt statement can be as false as any other.
Success and money can really be quite blinding.
Remember, I have a Ph.D. in English literature.
I got the Weary Blues And I can't be satisfied.
Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence.
They may be a little more high brow than we are.
Squash - that's not exercise, it's flagellation.
Friends are sometimes boring, but enemies never.
Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it.
Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
I'm an idiot who won the Literature Nobel Prize.
I don't think a tough question is disrespectful.
It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
I'm not rational enough to be a good journalist.
I rarely read or buy a book because of a review.
But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.
There's no one thing that's true. It's all true.
My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.
An unclean person is universally a slothful one.
War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
There is no such thing as children’s literature.
I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.
Nobody ever grew despondent looking for trouble.
You play, you win, you play, you lose. You play.
Literature bores me, especially great literature
There's hostility to lying, and there should be.
The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
America, I've given you all and now I'm nothing.
True friends appear less moved than counterfeit.
Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry.
Who then may trust the dice, at Fortune's throw?
To write for children at all is an act of faith.
Literature is painting, architecture, and music.
Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.