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I've always loved literature, and the best books I read were always trilogies.
The weak have remedies, the wise have joys; superior wisdom is superior bliss.
I can't think of any other job in journalism where the newsmakers come to you.
Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them.
I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
Only the more rugged mortals should attempt to keep up with current literature.
It had already occurred to him that books were stuff, and that life was stupid.
You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense.
Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.
Victor Saville was bad news because he wanted money just to do one big picture.
A book begins with an image or character or situation that I care about deeply.
Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.
There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
Literature is about as unnecessarily necessarily as tableware or ironed shirts.
The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire.
Because most writers have totally unrealistic concepts of how publishing works.
Texas was defined by its larger-than-life characters, particularly politicians.
In great literature, I become a thousand different men but still remain myself.
What I try to do in a play is put a problem on stage, head-on, without evasion.
The victim mentality may be the last uncomplicated thing about life in America.
My books always begin with a sentence and an image - not necessarily connected.
Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.
You never find an Englishman among the under-dogs except in England, of course.
My God, the corruptions of literature. It put all these notions into our heads.
I was an English-literature major, and that's all about stories and narratives.
Faith is not a thing which one loses, we merely cease to shape our lives by it.
You should love literature. You should live in the library. Forget about films.
You could put on monkeys jumping up and down and get bigger numbers than MSNBC.
Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
The greatest obstacle to international understanding is the barrier of language
In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears.
God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.
I don't think very many people would accuse Paula Zahn of being a conservative.
An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch.
Novels tend to end as the Paternoster begins: with the kingdom of God on earth.
Writer's make national literature, while translators make universal literature.
I don't write because there's an audience. I write because there is literature.
Americans believe that if you know something, you should do something about it.
We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.
It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
There is something very romantic about the orphan figure in American literature.
Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.
The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.
Almost any poem has to be read twice, first for strangeness, second for clarity.
I don't wish to be a slave any longer to the stringent exigencies of literature.
An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out.
Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
Memoir is not an act of history but an act of memory, which is innately corrupt.
Literature is a mystical place for me. It's not dry. It's where miracles happen.
I forget a book as soon as I finish writing it, which is not always a good thing