I have found that each of my books has developed out of something I have written in a previous book. Some thought evidently unfinished.

it is my conviction that the personality of the writer has nothing to do with the literate product of his mind. And publicity in this case embarrasses me because I am acutely conscious of how far short the book falls of the artistry I am struggling to achieve. It's like being caught half-dressed.

Readers themselves, I think, contribute to a book. They add their own imaginations, and it is as though the writer only gave them something to work on, and they did the rest.

I had done battle with a great fear and the victory was mine.

the inferred is always more effective than the obvious.

It's very important to be just to other people. It takes years and years of living to learn that injustice against oneself is always unimportant.

We cannot live without the Earth or apart from it, and something is shrivelled in a man's heart when he turns away from it and concerns himself only with the affairs of men