Mir Bahadur Ali is, as we have seen, incapable of evading the most vulgar of art's temptations: that of being a genius.

Reading ... is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.

Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.

It is worth remembering that every writer begins with a naively physical notion of what art is. A book for him or her is not an expression or a series of expre…

Ooh, look at me, I'm Dave, I'm writing a book! With all my thought in it. La la la!

The best of our fiction is by novelists who allow that it is as good as they can give, and the worst by novelists who maintain that they could do much better i…

There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we do try, something u…