The wrongs of childhood and upbringing have made a large and obsessional contribution to autobiography and the novel.

It's all in the art. You get no credit for living.

It is often said that in Ireland there is an excess of genius unsustained by talent; but there is talent in the tongues.

I shall never be as old as I was between 20 and 30.

Now, practically all reviewers have academic aspirations. The people from the universities are used to a captive audience, but the literary journalist has to please his audience.

The makers of the short story have rarely been good novelists.

The peculiar foreign superstition that the English do not like love, the evidence being that they do not talk about it.