I suppose drama can either take the place of a novel or can be very closely allied with it. It's quite customary to turn a successful novel into a film or a television series because you can dramatize and pictorialize a novel.

What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.

As far as the novel is concerned in my own country, I think it's in a pretty healthy state.

Percival was mouse-coloured and had not been very attractive even to his mother.

Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.

We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?

I play the piano passionately and inaccurately. Indeed, I worked out the other day that of my seventy-five years; I have spent at least one year sitting on a piano stool.