Sir, there is more knowledge of the heart in one letter of Richardson's, than in all Tom Jones.

The mind can be but full. It will be as much filled with a small disagreeable occurrence, having no other, as with a large one.

When his story of Pamela first came out, some extracts got into the public papers, and used by that means to find their way down as far as Preston in Lancashir…

Of what violences, murders, depredations, have not the epic poets, from all antiquity, been the occasion, by propagating false honour, false glory, and false r…

One of the objections I have against Campbell's Astounding was that there was too little love in it. It was a very loveless magazine. They never took enough ac…

Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from the works of any other author which …

I look upon Upton Sinclair as one of the greatest novelists in the world, the Zola of America.