Nature Is Inside Art As

The Tricky Or Boastful Gods Of Ancient Myths And Primitive Folk Tales Are Characters Of The Same Kind That Turn Up In Faulkner Or Tennessee Williams.

Writing: I Certainly Do Rewrite My Central Myth In Every Book, And Would Never Read Or Trust Any Writer Who Did Not Also Do So.

War Appeals To Young Men Because It Is Fundamentally Auto-eroticism.

No Matter How Much Experience We May Gather In Life, We Can Never In Life Get The Dimension Of Experience That The Imagination Gives Us. Only The Arts And Sciences Can Do That, And Of These, Only Literature Gives Us The Whole Sweep And Range Of Human Imagination As It Sees Itself

Teaching Literature Is Impossible; That Is Why It Is Difficult.