A bad book is as much of a labour to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author's soul. Point Counter Point (1928)
The creation by word-power of something out of nothing--what is that but magic? And, may I add, what is that but literature? Crome Yellow (1921)
What the cinema can do better than literature or the spoken drama is to be fantastic. Essays Old and New (1926)
That was the chief difference between literature and life. In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is high; in reality, very low. Eyeless in Gaza (1936)