“There is no rest for the literary!”
“The uncanny is not a literary genre. But nor is it a non-literary genre. It overflows the very institution of literature. It inhabits, haunts, parasitizes the allegedly non-literary. It makes 'genre' blink.”
“it never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls.”
“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.”
“Excessive literary production is a social offense.”
“Literary critics make natural detectives.”