No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.
Arnold BennettEssential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion.
Arnold BennettThe makers of literature are those who have seen and felt the miraculous interestingness of the universe. If you have formed...literary taste...your life will be one long ecstasy of denying that the world is a dull place.
Arnold BennettIf egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.
Arnold BennettBecause her instinct has told her, or because she has been reliably informed, the faded virgin knows that the supreme joys are not for her; she knows by a process of the intellect; but she can feel her deprivation no more than the young mother can feel the hardship of the virgin's lot.
Arnold Bennett