To Be Misunderstood Can Be The Writer's

Rome Was A Poem Pressed Into Service As A City.

To Choose A Writer For A Friend Is Like Palling Around With Your Cardiologist, Who Might Be Musing As You Talk To Him That You Are A Sinking Man. A Writer's Love For Another Writer Is Never Quite Free Of Malice. He May Enjoy Discussing Your Failures Even More Than You Do. He Probably Sees You As Tragic, Like His Characters - Or Unworthy Of Tragedy, Which Is Worse.

We Don't Simply Read Books. We Become Them.

Aphorisms Are Bad For Novels. They Stick In The Reader's Teeth.

The First Divorce In The World May Have Been A Tragedy, But The Hundred-millionth Is Not Necessarily One.