Life Never Gives Us What We Want

Only People Who Have Been Allowed To Practise Freedom Can Have The Grown-up Look In Their Eyes.

Long Books, When Read, Are Usually Overpraised, Because The Reader Wishes To Convince Others And Himself That He Has Not Wasted His Time.

I Do Not Believe In Belief.

Either Life Entails Courage, Or It Ceases To Be Life.

A Novelist Can Shift View-point If It Comes Off. ... Indeed, This Power To Expand And Contract Perception (of Which The Shifting View-point Is A Symptom), This Right To Intermittent Knowledge - I Find One Of The Great Advantages Of The Novel-form ... This Intermittence Lends In The Long Run Variety And Colour To The Experiences We Receive.