It Is Not What Happens To People

Literature Illuminates Life Only For Those To Whom Books Are A Necessity.

People Think That Because A Novel's Invented, It Isn't True. Exactly The Reverse Is The Case. Biography And Memoirs Can Never Be Wholly True, Since They Cannot Include Every Conceivable Circumstance Of What Happened. The Novel Can Do That.

A Dance To The Music Of Time.

Self-love Seems So Often Unrequited.

Writing Is Above All A Question Of Instinct.