A Novelist Is An Elephant, But An

Leisure Was The Sine Qua Non Of The Full Renaissance. The Feudal Nobility, Having Lost Its Martial Function, Sought Diversion All Over Europe In Cultivated Pastimes: Sonneteering, The Lute, Games And Acrostics, Travel, Gentlemanly Studies And Sports, Hunting And Hawking, Treated As Arts.

As Soon As You Become A Writer, You Lose Contact With Ordinary Experience Or Tend To. ... The Worst Fate Of A Writer Is To Become A Writer.

Life For The European Is A Career; For The American It Is A Hazard.

The Present Can Try To Bury The Past, An Operation That Is Most Atrocious When It Is Most Successful.

If You Want To Be Your Own Master ... Always Be Surprised By Evil; Never Anticipate It.