Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind.
Rebecca WestIt is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
Rebecca WestWere it possible for us to wait for ourselves to come into the room, not many of us would find our hearts breaking into flower as we heard the door handle turn.
Rebecca WestA bad short story or novel or poem leaves one comparatively calm because it does not exist, unless it gets a fake prestige throughbeing mistaken for good work. It is essentially negative, it is something that has not come through. But over bad criticism one has a sense of real calamity.
Rebecca West