Is It Really Beyond Our Wits To

A Writer's First Duty Is To Be Clear. Clarity Is An Excellent Virtue. Like All Virtues It Can Be Pursued At Ruinous Cost. Paid, So Far As I Am Concerned, Joyfully.

The Critic's Hankering To Be Law-giver Rather Than Servant Of Literature Is Irrepressible.

Invaders Always Destroy Libraries.

I Am Persuaded That Not A Novel In Ten Thousand Is Of Any Use To A Child To Fit Him For Life. The Most Are Of Use Only To Unfit Him -- To Blunt His Senses And Infect Him With The Writers' Poor Silly Sentiments. Nine Out Of Ten Novelists Deserve To Be Prosecuted Under An Adulterated Emotions Act.

Speaking The Truth, Once You Have Started It, Is Too Exhilarating To Draw Back.