No Human Endeavour Can Ever Be Wholly

Before The Second World War I Believed In The Perfectibility Of Social Man; That A Correct Structure Of Society Would Produce Goodwill; And That Therefore You Could Remove All Social Ills By A Reorganisation Of Society. .... But After The War I Did Not Because I Was Unable To. I Had Discovered What One Man Could Do To Another... I Must Say That Anyone Who Moved Through Those Years Without Understanding That Man Produces Evil As A Bee Produces Honey, Must Have Been Blind Or Wrong In The Head...

It Wasn't Until I Was 37 That I Grasped The Great Truth That You've Got To Write Your Own Books And Nobody Else's, And Then Everything Followed From There.

Honestly, I Haven't The Time To Read Contemporary Writers. I Know This Is Awful, But In The Main It Is True.

Heaven Lies Around Us In Our Infancy.

I Suppose Drama Can Either Take The Place Of A Novel Or Can Be Very Closely Allied With It. It's Quite Customary To Turn A Successful Novel Into A Film Or A Television Series Because You Can Dramatize And Pictorialize A Novel.