The Pursuit Of Beauty Is Much More

Literature As A Whole Is Not An Aggregate Of Exhibits With Red And Blue Ribbons Attached To Them, Like A Cat-show, But The Range Of Articulate Human Imagination As It Extends From The Height Of Imaginative Heaven To The Depth Of Imaginative Hell.

This Story Of Loss And Regaining Of Identity Is, I Think, The Framework Of All Literature.

There Is Only One Way To Degrade Mankind Permanently And That Is To Destroy Language.

Metaphors Of Unity And Integration Take Us Only So Far, Because They Are Derived From The Finiteness Of The Human Mind.

A Writers Desire To Write Can Only Have Come From Previous Experience Of Literature, And He'll Start By Imitating Whatever He's Read, Which Usually Means What The People Around Him Are Writing.