If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!

As the gambler said of his dice, to love and win is the best thing, to love and lose is the next best.

'Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard, Master Harry--every man of every nation has done that--'tis the living up to it that is difficult, as I know to …

Of the Corporation of the Goosequill--of the Press, my boy,...of the fourth estate...There she is-the great engine-she never sleeps. She has her ambassadors in…

Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman 'other' or flawed derivative of the author; the lack of a pen is no longer a shameful mark of …

Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.

Get stewed: Books are a load of crap.