Fashion Seems To Exist For

Some People Are Molded By Their Admirations, Others By Their Hostilities.

A Novel Which Survives, Which Withstands And Outlives Time, Does Do Something More Than Merely Survive. It Does Not Stand Still. It Accumulates Round Itself The Understanding Of All These Persons Who Bring To It Something Of Their Own. It Acquires Associations, It Becomes A Form Of Experience In Itself, So That Two People Who Meet Can Often Make Friends, Find An Approach To Each Other, Because Of This One Great Common Experience They Have Had.

Mechanical Difficulties With Language Are The Outcome Of Internal Difficulties With Thought.

The Craft Of The Novelist Does Lie First Of All In Story-telling.

Spoilt Pleasure Is A Sad, Unseemly Thing; You Can Only Bury It.