A word in a dictionary is very much like a car in a mammoth motor show - full of potential but temporarily inactive.

Alex like groweth up, Oh Yes.

A work of fiction should be, for its author, a journey into the unknown, and the prose should convey the difficulties of the journey.

If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.

...the essential intention is the real sin. A man who cannot choose ceases to be a man.

There is, in fact, not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the possibility of moral transformation, or an increase in wisdom, operating in your chief character or characters.

Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist.