Excessive literary production is a social offense.
I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.
Literature should not disappear up its own asshole, so to speak.
We don't genuinely need more literary geniuses. One can only read so many books in a lifetime.
Way before musicians and actors cornered the market on misbehavior, writers were flooding hotel rooms and testing their livers' upper limits.
I think the adjective post-modernist really means mannerist. Books about books is fun but frivolous.
The naturalistic literature of this country has reached such a state that no family of characters is considered true to life whichdoes not include at least two hypochondriacs, one sadist, and one old man who spills food down the front of his vest.
All bad writers are in love with the epic.
There are writers in Germany who drink the Absolute like water; and there are books in which even the dogs make references to the Infinite.
What the beautiful-writing writers are most attached to is almost always superfluous.
We have a name for your disease. We call it a hyper-aesthetic one. You have been encouraged to over-indulge yourself in literature; and have inflamed your organs of fancy.
I had never thought of myself as a dramatist, and, for really good technical results, the thought came too late: a man of letters has become too wordy to write economically for the stage.
In general, in poetry and literature, I am among those people who believe that too much is indispensable.
