Name the Author

Here are four quotes on the topic of literature by the same author. Each provides an insight into the author's personality and therefore a clue. Without cheating by using a Google search, do you want to venture a guess what author it is?

"In literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original; whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it."

"Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become."

"A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading."

"You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me."