When you draw something it lives and when you photograph it it dies

It is not only species of animal that die out, but whole species of feeling. And if you are wise you will never pity the past for what it did not know, but pity yourself for what it did.

There cannot be any true leisure until all the world possesses it equally.

Another reason I think the novel will survive is that the reader has to work in a novel. In a film, you are presented with someone else's imagination exactly bodied out. The marvelous thing about a novel is that every reader will imagine even the very simplest sentence slightly differently.

They're beautiful. But sad.' Everything's sad if you make it so, I said.

The great majority of modern third-person narration is "I" narration very thinly disguised.

Art is a statement of one in the face of all; not a statement by one for the use of all.