top of page
.png){kind=small}
More
"When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes."
Author Name
Personal Development
"You can keep the things of bronze and stone and give me one man to remember me just once a year."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze."
Author Name
Personal Development
"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat."
Author Name
Personal Development
"No man may make another free."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men."
Author Name
Personal Development
"To depend upon the Will of a Man is Slavery."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"The novel is the first art form that is an honest-to-god commodity. That's what makes it different from both high art and folk art."
Art
"Writers always know whether you like them or not."
Media
"I love it now that a large minority of people who are handicapped prefer to call themselves crippled. This is all part of the game, like queer theory."
Love
"Saul Bellow never took my advice when he was my friend."
Friendship
"Hemingway seems to be in a funny position. People nowadays can't identify with him closely as a member of their own generation, and he isn't yet historical."
Fun
"Foucault was the one person I met in France that I could talk to. He was a mensch. You know whether you agree with him or not because you know what he is saying."
Philosophy
"I've been writing about James Fenimore Cooper. He was not a writer. Here was a man who was 30 years old and had never put anything more than his signature on paper."
Man
"The novel doesn't come into existence until certain methods of reproducing fiction come along."
Existence
"Critics? How do they happen? I know how it happened to me. I would send a poem or story to a magazine and they would say this doesn't suit our needs precisely but on the other hand you sound interesting. Would you be interested in doing a review?"
Needs
"It's so wrong when I pick up a new edition of Huckleberry Finn and I look at the last page and it doesn't say, Yours truly, at the end."
Literature
bottom of page