Disappointment tears the bearable film off life.

Not only is there no question of solitude, but in the long run we may not choose our company.

the process of reading is reciprocal; the book is no more than a formula, to be furnished out with images out of the reader's mind.

Though not all reading children grow up to be writers, I take it that most creative writers must in their day have been reading children.

Have not all poetic truths been already stated? The essence of a poetic truth is that no statement of it can be final.

The novel does not simply recount experience, it adds to experience.

The most steady, the most self-sufficient nature depends, more than it knows, on its few chosen stimuli.