The historian records, but the novelist creates.

The crime of suicide lies rather in its disregard for the feelings of those whom we leave behind.

It is devilish difficult to criticise society & also create human beings.

She only felt that the candle would burn better, the packing go easier, the world be happier, if she could give and receive some human love.

The historian records, but the novelist creates.

I think you’re beautiful, the only beautiful person I’ve ever seen. I love your voice and everything to do with you, down to your clothes or the room you are sitting in. I adore you.

Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is the only way of discovering what they contain. A few savage tribes eat them, but reading is the only method of assimilation revealed to the West.