The writer's job is not to judge, but to seek to understand.

You see I'm trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across, not just to depict life, or criticize it, but to actually make it alive.

Now a writer can make himself a nice career while he is alive by espousing a political cause, working for it, making a profession of believing in it, and if it wins he will be very well placed. All politics is a matter of working hard without reward, or with a living wage for a time, in the hope of booty later. A man can be a Fascist or a Communist and if his outfit gets in he can get to be an ambassador or have a million copies of his books printed by the Government or any of the other rewards the boys dream about.

It's harder to write in the third person but the advantage is you move around better.

A writer without a sense of justice or injustice would be better off editing the yearbook for a school for exceptional children.

Everything you have is to give. Thou art a phenomenon of philosophy and an unfortunate man.

That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.