The most steady, the most self-sufficient nature depends, more than it knows, on its few chosen stimuli.

I pity people who do not care for Society. They are poorer for the oblation they do not make.

Plot is the knowing of destination.

But in general, for the purposes of most novelists, the number of objects genuinely necessary for. . .describing a scene will be found to be very small.

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.

... love dreads being isolated, being left to speak in a void -- at the beginning it would often rather listen than speak.

in my experience one thing you don't learn from is anything anyone set up to be a lesson; what you are to know you pick up as you go along.