I often have
long conversations all by myself
and I am so clever
that sometimes I don't understand
a single word
of what I am saying.
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Aphorisms by Oscar Wilde
The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.
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What are American dry-goods? American novels.
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I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
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We should read everything. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.
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I quite admit that modern novels have many good points. All I insist on is that, as a class, they are quite unreadable.
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From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates.
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Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.
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There is no such thing as a moral or immoral book. Books are either well written or badly written. That is all.
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The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable, and literature is not read.
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