Walter Scott Has No Business To Write

How Hard It Is In Some Cases To Be Believed!' 'and How Impossible In Others!

One Has Not Great Hopes From Birmingham. I Always Say There Is Something Direful In The Sound.

But There Was Happiness Elsewhere Which No Description Can Reach.

A Novel Must Show How The World Truly Is. Somehow, Reveals The True Source Of Our Actions.

I Do Not Think I Ever Opened A Book In My Life Which Had Not Something To Say Upon Woman's Inconstancy. Songs And Proverbs, All Talk Of Woman's Fickleness. But Perhaps You Will Say, These Were All Written By Men." "perhaps I Shall. Yes, Yes, If You Please, No Reference To Examples In Books. Men Have Had Every Advantage Of Us In Telling Their Own Story. Education Has Been Theirs In So Much Higher A Degree; The Pen Has Been In Their Hands. I Will Not Allow Books To Prove Anything.