607 quotes found
“Literature is a power to be possessed not a body of objects to be studied.”
“In literary history generation follows generation in a rage.”
“To be a good diarist one must have a little snouty sneaky mind.”
“Published memoirs indicate the end of a man's activity and that he acknowledges the end.”
“It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature that a man having once shown himself capable of original writing is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion.”
“Contemporary literature can be classified under three headings: the neurotic the erotic and the tommy-rotic.”
“Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult but to the adult in the child.”
