When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.

A serious writer is not to be confused with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bl…

There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest thi…

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.