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I am under the spell of language, which has ruled me since I was 10.
Source:...
The mark of genius is an incessant activity of the mind. Genius is spiritual greed.
All writers all people have their stores of private and family legends which lie like a collection of half-forgotten,...
It is less the business of the novelist to tell us what happened than to show how it...
I shall never be as old as I was between 20 and 30.
Source: In NY Times, 16 Dec...
The wrongs of childhood and upbringing have made a large and obsessional contribution to autobiography and the...
It is often said that in Ireland there is an excess of genius unsustained by talent; but there is talent in the...
Detective stories are the art-for-art's sake of yawning Philistinism.
Source: Books...
We do not wish to be better than we are, but more fully what we are.
Source: The...
The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.
Source: Collected Stories,...