A Novel Must Give A Sense Of

Mistrust All Enterprises That Require New Clothes.

A Novel Must Give A Sense Of Permanence As Well As A Sense Of Life.

Ideas Are Fatal To Caste.

But I Have Seen My Obstacles: Trivialities, Learning And Poetry. This Last Needs Explaining: The Old Artist's Readiness To Dissolve Characters Into A Haze. Characters Cannot Come Alive And Fight And Guide The World Unless The Novelist Wants Them To Remain Characters.

Nature Pulls One Way And Human Nature Another.