The Art Of Fiction Is

We Are So Placid That The Smallest Tremor Of Objection Is Taken As A Full-scale Revolution.

Above All, A Book Is A Riverbank For The River Of Language. Language Without The Riverbank Is Only Television Talk - A Free Fall, A Loose Splash, A Spill.

I'm Not Afraid Of Facts, I Welcome Facts But A Congeries Of Facts Is Not Equivalent To An Idea. This Is The Essential Fallacy Of The So-called "scientific" Mind. People Who Mistake Facts For Ideas Are Incomplete Thinkers; They Are Gossips.

To Be Any Sort Of Competent Writer One Must Keep One's Psychological Distance From The Supreme Artists.

To Imagine The Unimaginable Is The Highest Use Of The Imagination