It seems that so much writing is being done in the nineteenth-century model, where every connection has to be thoroughly explained.
When I read 'The Master', I felt that I had read a true classic. It's so rare nowadays that you have that feeling: it was a privilege to read it.
When you're writing a book, you don't want it to be overly trendy because you want people to enjoy it for years and refer back to it.
'The Dick Van Dyke Show' was the most fun I ever had and the most creative period of my life.
I call that [Book of Job], apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with pen.
Introductions, that is, belong to the masterpieces and classics of the world, to the great and ancient and accepted things; and I am here introducing a short, small story of my own which appeared in The Evening News about ten months ago.
The translators of the Bible were masters of an English style much fitter for that work than any we see in our present writings; the which is owing to the simplicity that runs through the whole.
There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You're left wondering about the legitimacy of relationships. It's probably harder to entertain the same people with a more classic form of writing, and romantic comedies are a classic genre.
I want to write books that can be read a hundred years from now, and readers wouldn't be bogged down by irrelevant details.
The best models of English writing are Shakespeare and the Old Testament.
