... in the happy laughter of a theatre audience one can get the most immediate and numerically impressive guarantee that there is nothing in one's mind which is not familiar to the mass of persons living at the time.
Rebecca WestA copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned things is ample.
Rebecca WestThere is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence.
Rebecca WestGod forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.
Rebecca Westsentences were used by man before words and still come with the readiness of instinct to his lips. They, and not words, are the foundations of all language. ... Your cat has no words, but it has considerable feeling for the architecture of the sentence in relation to the problem of expressing climax.
Rebecca West