We Must Use Words As They Are

The Plot Is Not Very Important To Me, Though A Novel Must Have One, Of Course. It's Just A Line To Hang The Washing On.

Civilized Life Exacts Its Toll.

If I Were Not A Child With My Parents, They Would Be More Unloving Toward Me.

Most Of The Pleasure Of Making A Book Would Go If It Held Nothing To Be Shared By Other People. I Would Write For A Few Dozen People, And Sometimes It Seems That I Do So, But I Would Not Write For No-one.

Dear, Dear, The Miniature World Of The Family! All The Emotions Of Mankind Seem To Find A Place In It.