When all the details fit in perfectly, something is probably wrong with the story.
Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction... Play the age as comedy if you want to get away with murder.
Agee on Film, Vol. 1: Essays and ReviewsReality is a cliché from which we escape by metaphor.
The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the ImaginationThe flick of her hip is distilled erotica, a practiced sexuality.
Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the CraftA great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it.
Table-Talk, Essays on Men and MannersIt is good to be a cynic — it is better to be a contented cat — and it is best not to exist at all.
Collected Essays 5: Philosophy, Autobiography and MiscellanySome judge of authors' names, not works, and then nor praise nor blame the writings, but the men.
An Essay on CriticismTrust not yourself; but your defects to know, Make use of ev'ry friend—and ev'ry foe.
An Essay on CriticismWords are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
An Essay on CriticismThe most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation.
The Essays: A SelectionNeeding something is not the same thing as being interested in the thing itself.
Burning Down the House: Essays on FictionPoems are like dreams: in them you put what you don't know you know.
Arts of the Possible: Essays and ConversationsOut of sheer perversity, I followed beauty where it lead, into the silence.
The Invisible Dragon: Essays on BeautyPoetry looking in the mirror sees art, and art looking in a mirror sings poetry.
Illuminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.