This element of surprise or mystery the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called is of great importance in a plot.

Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.

Ideas are fatal to caste.

In the novel we can know people perfectly, and, apart from the general pleasure of reading, we can find here a compensation for their dimness in life.

Roger Fry is painting me. It is too like me at present, but he is confident he will be able to alter that. Post-Impressionism is at present confined to my lower lip... and to my chin.

The people I admire most are those who are sensitive and want to create something or discover something, and do not see life in terms of power.

I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave me with the feeling I have made a full theatrical meal they do not give me the experience of the multiplicity of life.