A woman writer, quitting love before literature when love lets her down, will put literature before love.
For she was of that generation who, having found nothing in religion, had formed themselves through literature.
There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they don't.
The most exciting periods of literature have always been those when the critics were great.
Time is the River on which the leaves of our thoughts are carried into oblivion.
Literature is analysis after the event.