“Literary critics make natural detectives.”
“In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself.”
“The criminal is a creative artist; detectives are just critics.”
“The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.”
“Literary detection and firearms don't really go hand in hand; pen mighter than the sword and so forth. ”
“Most modern literary criticism is literary and nothing else—that is, it concentrates on an author's style and thinks it rather vulgar to notice his subject matter.”