Letter to The Daily Telegraph, July 8, 1941; published in The Letters of Sean O'Casey: 1910-41 (New York: Macmillan, 1975) p. 890.
Of P. G. Wodehouse's wartime broadcasts from Berlin.
A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated (1894)
“No story in English literature has intrigued me more than Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland.”
It fascinated me the first time I read it as a schoolboy and as soon as I possibly could after I started making animated cartoons, I acquired the film rights to it. People in his period had no time to waste on triviality, yet Carroll with his nonsense and fantasy furnished a balance between seriousness and enjoyment which everybody needed then and still needs today.
American Weekly (1946)
On some people’s resistance to reading English literature in “Luis Rafael Sánchez: Counterpoints" https://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00096005/00024/14j (Sargasso, 1984)
“Literature is no longer Necessary Teaching is left.”
Some of the Dharma (1997)
Source: The Paris Review interview (1981), p. 31
“Any literature, when it arrives at being good literature, transcends genre.”
Vanna Bonta Talks About Quantum fiction: Author Interview (2007)
Liquidation (2003)
Context: The state is always the same. The only reason it financed literature up till now was in order to liquidate it. Giving state support to literature is the state's sneaky way for the state liquidation of literature.
Source: The Book of Disquiet
“Mine is not an obedient writing. I think that literature as any art has to be irreverent.”
