Writers sometimes talk as though they were the only friends of civilization. This is their conceit. But they have special powers to serve -- or to corrupt -- civilization, and are obliged to use them.
Storm JamesonNationalism will keep its venom until we succeed in creating an image of the nations of the whole world as so many provinces.
Storm JamesonThe young are so much more vulnerable than the old - the stuff is still warm and malleable, it takes impressions.
Storm JamesonAll writers who can claim to be called 'living' must be political in a sense. They must have what the Quakers call a concern to understand what is happening in the world, and must engage themselves, in their writing, to promote no comfortable lies, of the sort which people will pay well to be told rather than the truth.
Storm Jameson