If you try to nail anything down, in the novel, either it kills the novel, or the novel gets up and walks away with the nail.
D. H. LawrenceHow ravished one could be without ever being touched. Ravished by dead words become obscene and dead ideas become obsessions.
D. H. LawrenceThe reaction to any word may be, in an individual, either a mob-reaction or an individual reaction. It is up to the individual to ask himself: Is my reaction individual, or am I merely reacting from my mob-self? When it comes to the so-called obscene words, I should say that hardly one person in a million escapes mob-reaction.
D. H. Lawrence