All Your Youth You Want To Have

The Passion Of Vanity Has Its Own Depths In The Spirit, And Is Powerfully Militant.

In Big Houses In Which Things Are Done Properly, There Is Always The Religious Element. The Diurnal Cycle Is Observed With More Feeling When There Are Servants To Do The Work.

Writers Do Not Find Subjects; Subjects Find Them.

Characters Are Not Created By Writers. They Pre-exist And Have To Be Found.

The Most Striking Fault In Work By Young Or Beginning Novelists, Submitted For Criticism, Is Irrelevance--due Either To Infatuation Or Indecision. To Direct Such An Author's Attention To The Imperative Of Relevance Is Certainly The Most Useful--and Possibly The Only--help That Can Be Given.