I'm not saying all publishers have to be literary, but some interest in books would help.

I had lost faith in biography.

Everyone writes in Tolstoy's shadow, whether one feels oneself to be Tolstoyan or not.

One symptom of his (Hitler) being strangely at variance with reality, or the nature of things,was his gift for wearing inappropriate of ludicrous clothing...When he was supposed to be starting a militaristic revolution he was wearing evening dress and an ill-fitting black tailcoat...and his army medals.

The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.

Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.

I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.