Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand - a business as safe and commendable as making soap or breakfast foods - or it should be an art, which is always a search for something for which there is no market demand, something new and untried, where the values are intrinsic and have nothing to do with standardized values.

Art, it seems to me, should simplify. That, indeed, is very nearly the whole of the higher artistic process; finding what conventions of form and what detail o…

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

The world is always full of brilliant youth which fades into grey and embittered middle age: the first flowering takes everything. The great men are those who …

I regard criticism as an art, and if in this country and in this age it is practiced with honesty, it is no more remunerative than the work of an avant-garde f…

Where I feel this has cost me is in the personality situation, where you're expected to be a personality. You not only have to write and record, but you have t…

Writing is not 'the establishment of a professional reputation' as if one were a doctor or lawyer; it is not properly in the sentence with creation of a family…