Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.

The general impression is that fifteen year-old Dolly remains morbidly uninterested in sexual matters, or to be exact, represses her curiosity in order to save her ignorance and self-dignity.

Poor Knight! he really had two periods, the firsta dull man writing broken English, the seconda broken man writing dull English.

And this is the only immortality you and i may share, my Lolita.

Dark pictures, thrones, the stones that pilgrims kiss Poems that take a thousand years to die But ape the immortality of this Red label on a little butterfly .

When I receive a new novel from a hopeful publisher - "hoping that I like the book as much as he does" - I check first of all how much dialog there is, and if it looks too abundant or too sustained, I shut the book with a bang.

I think it is all a matter of love.