Jane Austen is at the end of the line that begins with Samuel Richardson, which takes wonder and magic out of the novel, treats not the past but the present.

The studio should not have released this film.

By going to the movies, and because of other things, too, going to college, making a wide variety of friends, moving around traveling, I became a lot more open-minded than the heritage I was born...

Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. Some of us have ventured out nevertheless, and so far we have...

A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the lot of the masses.

Even the most piddling life is of momentous consequence to its owner.

Faulkner sat in our living room and read from Light in August. That was incredible.

The reason Saul Bellow doesn’t talk to me anymore is because he knows his new novels are not worth reading.

It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity.

If a movie is really working, you forget for two hours your Social Security number and where your car is parked. You are having a vicarious experience. You are identifying, in one way or another,...