I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.
We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.
If you like to read, sometimes it’s interesting just to go and see what the reality is, of the word, of the seedy or not so seedy fiction writer, the drunk or sober poet… Sometimes you can go looking for illumination.
I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
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