Who said “This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.”?

“Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.”

“Criticism should be a casual conversation.”

“What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.”

“A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.”

“A man must serve his time to every trade Save censure — critics are ready-made.”

“Brevity is the soul of lingerie.”

“It's not the tragedies that kill us, it's the messes.”

“Drink, and dance and laugh and lie, love the reeling midnight through, for tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)”

“There's a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words.”

“All those writers who write about their own childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't sit in the same room with me.”

“Art is a form of catharsis.”