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I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.

Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.

Movies can’t ruin books. They can only ruin movies.

Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.

I don’t think that Slaughterhouse-Five was successful movie material. In fact, Vonnegut’s books mostly I don’t feel are movie material.

Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.

I’m not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.

The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.

Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?