for real pleasure a pleasure resort should have no one in it but its legitimate inhabitants, oneself, and perhaps one's friends.
Writers, and particularly female writers, have to fight for the conditions they need to work.
In the writing process, the more a story cooks, the better.
Don't read a book out of its right time for you.
There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.
There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they don't.