The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you.
Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.
If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoevski, all of us.
Pound’s crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don’t put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.
Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not as a guide through the world, then as a yardstick for the language.
Noir is dead for me because historically, I think it’s a simple view. I’ve taken it as far as it can go. I think I’ve expanded on it a great deal, taken it further than any other American novelist.
Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.
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