The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence.

The only way for writers to meet is to share a quick peek over a common lamp-post.

All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.

The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above.

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.