What we ask of him is, that he should find out for us more than we can find out for ourselves.... He must have the passion of a lover.

Criticism is properly the rod of divination: a hazel switch for the discovery of buried treasure, not a birch twig for the castigation of offenders.

I have loved colours, and not flowers; Their motion, not the swallows wings; And wasted more than half my hours Without the comradeship of things.

Here in a little lonely room I am master of earth and sea, And the planets come to me.

First come I; my name is Jowett. There's no knowledge but I know it. I am master of this college: What I don't know isn't knowledge.

The question we writers are asked most often, the favorite question, is: Why do you write? I write because I have an innate need to write. I write because I ca…

''Write what you know' is a tautology. You have no choice -- you have to write what you know, and in order to write something new, you have to learn something …