Take away from English authors their copyrights, and you would very soon take away from England her authors.

Satire, though it may exaggerate the vice it lashes, is not justified in creating it in order that it may be lashed.

Barchester Towers has become one of those novels which do not die quite at once, which live and are read for perhaps a quarter of a century.

He must have known me had he seen me as he was wont to see me, for he was in the habit of flogging me constantly. Perhaps he did not recognise me by my face.

In pulp fiction it is a rigid convention that the hero's shoulders and the heroine's balcon constantly threaten to burst their bonds, a possibility which keeps…

That free culture was carried to America; that was our birth - 1790. We established a regime that left creativity unregulated. Now it was unregulated because c…

More books have resulted from somebody's need to write than from anybody's need to read.