No one can write a best-seller by taking thought. The slightest touch of insincerity blurs its appeal. The writer who keeps his tongue in his cheek, who knows that he is writing for fools and that, therefore, he had better write like a fool, makes a respectable living out of serials and novelettes; but he will never make the vast, the blaring, half a million success. That comes of blended sincerity and vitality.
Rebecca WestIt is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
Rebecca WestLife ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
Rebecca WestI have no faith in the sense of comforting beliefs which persuade me that all my troubles are blessings in disguise.
Rebecca West