I Thought I Might Write

Before I Write A Novel, Images Float Around In My Head That Work Like Icons - They Are Meaningless In Themselves, But Serve As Reminders.

Trollope Wrote So Many Novels And Other Works That They Tend To Crowd Each Other Out.

Writing Novels Is An Essentially Amateur Activity.

The Body, The Mind, And The Spirit Don't Form A Pyramid, They Form A Circle. Each Of Them Runs Into The Other Two. The Body Isn't Below The Mind And The Spirit; From The Point Of View It's Between Them. If You Reside Too Much In The Mind, Then You Get Too Abstract And Cut Off From The World. You Long For The Spiritual Life, But You Can't Get To It, And You Fall Into Despair. The Exercise Of The Senses Frees You From Abstraction And Opens The Way To Transcendence.

Charles Dickens Was An Avid Seeker Of Names - He Read Directories And Looked For Odd Names On Gravestones.