To Devastate Is Easier And More Spectacular

Any Book Has Behind It All The Other Books That Have Been Written.

I See What Is Right And Approve, But I Do What Is Wrong.

When A Man Cannot Chose, He Ceases To Be A Man.

One Goes On Writing Partly Because It Is The Only Available Way Of Earning A Living. It Is A Hard Way And Highly Competitive. My Heart Drops Into My Bowels When I Enter A Bookshop And See How Fierce The Competition Is...there Is Also A Privier Reason For Pushing On, And That Is The Hopeless Hope That Someday That Intractable Enemy Language Will Yield To The Struggle To Control It... Mastery Never Comes, And One Serves A Lifelong Apprenticeship. The Writer Cannot Retire From The Battle; He Dies Fighting.

The Practice Of Fiction Can Be Dangerous: It Puts Ideas Into The Head Of The World.