I know of no better name than Anarchism.
Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
The body of literature, with its limits and edges, exists outside some people and inside others. Only after the writer lets literature shape her can she perhaps shape literature.
Life and literature is a question of what one thrills to, and further than that no man shall ever go without putting his foot in a turd.
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
The unusual is only found in a very small percentage, except in literary creations, and that is exactly what makes literature.
The first function of violence in Native American literatures is simply to acknowledge that violence is implicit, like gravity and sunlight, in the world and our relations with the world.
We're all going to die. While I'm still here, I want to make a difference.
My God, the corruptions of literature. It put all these notions into our heads.
Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
The history of literature is the history of the human mind. It is, as compared with other histories, the intellectual as distinguished from the material, the informing spirit as compared with the outward and visible.
Pornography is literature designed to be read with one hand.
He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.
The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence.
I cherish the review-as-literature; as lapidary journalism in the eighteenth-century mode, the last hard sparkling diamond in theessayists's tarnished crown. To me, writing a good review is not just a way to make extra money, but a sacred duty.
American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter
Be able to describe anything visual, such as a street scene, in words that convey your meaning.
The victim mentality may be the last uncomplicated thing about life in America.
New Yorkers are mostly interested in New York - in case you haven't noticed.
Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.