“They say everything that can be written has been written. I say we are just getting started.”
“The certainty that everything has already been written annuls us, or renders us phantasmal.”
“The things that the novel does not say are necessarily more numerous than those it does say and only a special halo around what is written can give the illusion that you are reading also what is not written.”
“Denys (Finch-Hatton) has been written about before and he will be written about again. If someone has not already said it, someone will say that he was a great man who never achieved greatness, and this will not only be trite, but wrong; he was a great man who never achieved arrogance.”
“Many people can and have written books, but many have nothing to say.”
“Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.”