“Oh! journalism is unreadable, and literature is not read.”

“Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once, and they require separate techniques.”

“Journalism is literature in a hurry.”

“That was one thing about books: once you read them they couldn’t be unread.”

“If I wanted to be bored by 6,000 pages of unreadable dreck, I'd read War and Peace four times.”

“I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.”

“Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Nothing is more important than an unread library.”

“If many great books seem unreadable and unintelligible … it may be because we have not for a long time learned to read by reading them. Great books teach people not only how to read them, but how to read all other books.”

“No fiction is worth reading except for entertainment. If it entertains and is clean, it is good literature, or its kind. If it forms the habit of reading, in people who might not read otherwise, it is the best literature.”

“I learned to write reading North American literature, I love your literature, but I have this feeling that if a country only reads its own literature, it will run out of oxygen.”