Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.

Mrs. Todds my English teacher gives an automatic F if anyone ever writes "I woke up and it was all a dream" at the end of a story. She says it violates the deal between reader and writer, that it's a cop-out, it's the Boy Who Cried Wolf. But every single morning we really do wake up and it really was all a dream.

The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works

I write because, if I don't, my characters will murder me in my sleep.

What I'm interested in is how people are reading and writing English.

The Holocaust was the most evil crime ever committed.