Ah, We Have To Be

Most Of The Pleasure Of Making A Book Would Go If It Held Nothing To Be Shared By Other People. I Would Write For A Few Dozen People, And Sometimes It Seems That I Do So, But I Would Not Write For No-one.

My Youth Is Escaping Without Giving Me Anything It Owes Me.

We Must Use Words As They Are Used, Or Stand Aside From Life.

The Most Original Novelist Now Writing In English.

Anyone Who Picks Up A Compton-burnett Finds It Very Hard Not To Put It Down.