'All literature is gossip.'

'Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.'

'Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalis…

'I always felt that nobody was going to understand me, going to understand what I felt about things. I guess that is why I started to write. At least on paper …

'The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hu…

The Rev. Septimus Harding was, a few years since, a beneficed clergyman residing in the cathedral town of _____; let us call it Barchester. Were we to name Wel…

Storytelling and elegant style don't always go hand in hand.