Analogies are like lies.

Literature is news which stays news.

Write it as easy as you think about the difficulty

The mimicry of passion is the most intolerable of all poses.

There is no God but God, and his name is William Shakespeare.

Informative and understandable, even for non-techies like me...

Literature should not disappear up its own asshole, so to speak.

The history of literature is very far from being one of simple progress.

You never push a noun against a verb without trying to blow up something.

Critics in New York are made by their dislikes, not by their enthusiasms.

Apparently, faith in life is one thing and faith in literature is another.

In reality the puritans and the humanists were quite often the same people.

Thank you for sending me a copy of your book. I'll waste no time reading it.

Beware of the man who denounces woman writers; his penis is tiny and he cannot spell.

The way contemporary literature is emerging, soon we can expect "Item poetry" in novels.