As long as people believe in the written word and a good story.. They will believe in me.

If you tell me bad things about someone, you're telling bad things about me behind me

The thing people don't realize, God bless them, is that my books are supposed to suck.

I can no longer think what I want to think. My thoughts have been replaced by moving images.

If you cannot judge a book by its cover, surely we should not judge an author by one book alone?

In theory it was, around now, Literature. Susan hated Literature. She'd much prefer to read a good book.

If you love my work, you are a good critic. If you do not love my work, you are a 'not good' critic.

The heart of [J.G.] Ballard's vision [is] the object at odds with its function and abandoned by its time.

The Lethean Library, for all its incalculable volumes, is, I know, sadly incomplete without Mr. Goodman's effort.

CUSTOMER (to her friend): What's this literary criticism section? Is it for books that complain about other books?

Die Kunst des Rezensierens besteht nicht zuletzt darin, selbst über langweilige Bücher fesselnd zu schreiben.

I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.

A book is a machine to think with, but it need not, therefore, usurp the functions either of the bellows or the locomotive.

Everywhere I go, I am asked if I think university stifles writers. My opinion is that it doesn't stifle enough of them.

Attempts to connect men's circumstances too closely with their literary productions are usually, I believe, unsuccessful.