Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.

Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

You can't teach a hunter it's wrong to kill.

You can't teach a hunter it's wrong to kill.

The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency.

The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency.

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean

We breathe, we think, we conceive of our lives as narratives.

We breathe, we think, we conceive of our lives as narratives.

Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting the generations read more

Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting the generations to come.

Our poetry in the eighteenth century was prose; our prose in the
seventeenth, poetry.

Our poetry in the eighteenth century was prose; our prose in the
seventeenth, poetry.

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.