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Either a writer doesn't want to talk about his work, or he talks about it more than you want.

We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.

Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city.

If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it's great, it should be read at least three times.

I remember a table in BarchesterTowers that had more character than the combined heroes of three recent novels I've read.

Paranoids are the only ones who notice things anymore.

Sometimes it seems that we might have been happier if we had once had an aristocracy to blame everything on.

When we were in bed, the only part of me she touched was my penis, because it was the most detached.

Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words.

The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back to a book is one of the things that makes reading so valuable.

The first divorce in the world may have been a tragedy, but the hundred-millionth is not necessarily one.

Chic is a convent for unloved women.

I'm filled with desire - to live, to write, to do everything. Desire itself is a kind of immortality.

I feel about lending a book the way most fathers feel about their daughters living with a man out of wedlock.

Two people making love, she once said, are like one drowned person resuscitating the other.

An aphorism is a generalization of sorts, and our present-day writers seem more at home with the particular.

A book is meant not only to be read, but to haunt you, to importune you like a lover or a parent, to be in your teeth like a piece of gristle.

When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance.

People have no idea what a hard job it is for two writers to be friends. Sooner or later you have to talk about each other's work.

The moment a book is lent I begin to miss it.

A bookcase is as good as a view, as much of a panorama as the sight of a city or a river. There are dawns and sunsets in books - storms and zephyrs.

Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth.

There is something about seeing real people on a stage that makes a bad play more intimately, more personally offensive than any other art form.

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.