If there were genders to genres, fiction would be unquestionably feminine.
A book may be compared to your neighbor: if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.
I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.
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.
Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on.
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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