Every Individual Taste, Every Natural Appetite, Was

How Terrible It Was To Love People When You Could Not Really Share Their Lives!

It Has Long Been A Tradition Among Novel Writers That A Book Must End By Everybody Getting Just What They Wanted, Or If The Conventional Happy Ending Was Impossible, Then It Must Be A Tragedy In Which One Or Both Should Die. In Real Life Very Few Of Us Get What We Want, Our Tragedies Don't Kill Us, But We Go On Living Them Year After Year, Carrying Them With Us Like A Scar On An Old Wound.

One May Have Staunch Friends In One's Own Family, But One Seldom Has Admirers.

The Qualities Of A Second-rate Writer Can Easily Be Defined, But A First-rate Writer Can Only Be Experienced. It Is Just The Thing In Him Which Escapes Analysis That Makes Him First-rate.

Whatever Is Felt Upon The Page Without Being Specifically Named There — That, One Might Say, Is Created.