The only difficulty is to know what bits to choose and what to leave out. Novel-writing is not creation, it is selection.
Winifred HoltbyA sense of humor is so handy, isn't it? It lets you see both sides of a question so that you never need do anything.
Winifred HoltbyThe greatest mercy, I have often thought, of the Mediterranean coast lies in its mosquitoes. Did we not suffer from their unwelcome attention, we could not bear our holidays to end.
Winifred HoltbyNature is not silent, and never was a name more derisively inappropriate than when we speak of these non-human creatures who hoot and crow and bray as the dumb animals.
Winifred Holtby