Ours is the first age in history which has asked the child what he would tolerate learning.

I write any sort of rubbish which will cover the main outlines of the story, then I can begin to see it.

I am very handy with my advice and then when anybody appears to be following it, I get frantic.

I don't think you should write something as long as a novel around anything that is not of the gravest concern to you and everybody else and for me this is always the conflict between an attraction for the Holy and the disbelief in it that we breathe in with the air of the times.

I love a lot of people, understand none of them.

I believe the teacher's work is largely negative, that it is largely a matter of saying, "This doesn't work because ..." or "This does work because ..." The because is very important. The teacher can help you understand the nature of your medium, and he can guide you in your reading.

Your criticism sounds to me as if you have read too many critical books and are too smart in an artificial, destructive, and very limited way.