A novel is a printed circuit through which flows the force of a reader's own life.

A book begins as a private excitement of the mind.

Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.

The theory of the teacher with all these immigrant kids was that if you spoke English loudly enough they would eventually understand.

All over the world today, not just in the totalitarian countries, assiduous functionaries in Ministries of Truth are clubbing history dumb and rendering language insensible.

Someone dying asks if there is life after death. Yes, comes the answer, only not yours.

Poems have ideas. The ideas of poems come out of their emotions and their emotions are carried on images.