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The best books… are those that tell you what you know already.

Literature is the question minus the answer.

The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers.

My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.

Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.

Great writers are the saints for the godless.

It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.

Fiction is like a spider’s web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.

Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

In every author let us distinguish the man from his works.