It Is Ironical That In An Age

Be Born Anywhere, Little Embryo Novelist, But Do Not Be Born Under The Shadow Of A Great Creed, Not Under The Burden Of Original Sin, Not Under The Doom Of Salvation.

I Am Always Glad When Any Of My Books Can Be Put Into An Inexpensive Edition, Because I Like To Think That Any People Who Might Wish To Read Them Can Do So. Surely Books Ought To Be Within Reach Of Everybody.

People On The Whole Are Very Simple-minded, In Whatever Country One Finds Them. They Are So Simple As To Take Literally, More Often Than No, The Things Their Leaders Tell Them.

Life Without Idealism Is Empty Indeed. We Just Hope Or Starve To Death.

No Writer, I Believe, Should Attempt A Novel Before He Is Thirty, And Not Then Unless He Has Been Hopelessly And Helplessly Involved In Life. For The Writer Who Goes Out To Find Material For A Novel, As A Fishermen Goes Out To Sea To Fish, Will Certainly Not Write A Good Novel. Life Has To Be Lived Thoughtlessly, Unconsciously, At Full Tilt And For No Purpose Except Its Own Sake Before It Becomes, Eventually, Good Material For A Novel.