Though not all reading children grow up to be writers, I take it that most creative writers must in their day have been reading children.

A Bowen, in the first place, made Bowen's Court. Since then, with a rather alarming sureness, Bowen's Court has made all the succeeding Bowens.

Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.

[A writer] should try not to be too far, personally, below the level of his work.

Certain books come to meet me, as do people.

Ghosts, we hope, may be always with us - that is, never too far out of the reach of fancy. On the whole, it would seem they adapt themselves well, perhaps better than we do, to changing world conditions - they enlarge their domain, shift their hold on our nerves, and, dispossessed of one habitat, set up house in another. The universal battiness of our century looks like providing them with a propitious climate.

We are minor in everything but our passions.