Expectations Are The Most Perilous Form Of

Not Only Is There No Question Of Solitude, But In The Long Run We May Not Choose Our Company.

Characters Are Not Created By Writers. They Pre-exist And Have To Be Found.

... Any Fictionis Bound To Be Transposed Autobiography.

... A Novel Survives Because Of Its Basic Truthfulness, Its Having Within It Something General And Universal, And A Quality Of Imaginative Perception Which Applies Just As Much Now As It Did In The Fifty Or Hundred Or Two Hundred Years Since The Novel Came To Life.

Education Is Not So Important As People Think.