It is after creation, in the elation of success, or the gloom of failure, that love becomes essential.

Popular success is a palace built for a writer by publishers, journalists, admirers and professional reputation makers, in which a silent army of termites, rat…

Failure on the other hand is infectious. The world is full of charming failures (for all charming people have something to conceal, usually their total depende…

There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.