Education is not so important as people think.

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

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.

In big houses in which things are done properly, there is always the religious element. The diurnal cycle is observed with more feeling when there are servants to do the work.

All good dialogue perhaps deals with something unprecedented.

What's the matter with this country is the matter with the lot of us individually - our sense of personality is a sense of outrage.

... it appears to me that problems, inherent in any writing, loom unduly large when one looks ahead. Though nothing is easy, little is quite impossible.