... in nine out of ten cases the original wish to write is the wish to make oneself felt ... [ellipsis in source] the non-essentia...l writer never gets past that wish.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All is changed. All looks strange to me and gives me a feeling which I would rather get away from, although I know it to be the ca...rrying out of natural laws. And I am not complaining. I am doing the same as many old people have done, I suppose, who have led an active life and suddenly find themselves living without a purpose. Oh, my heart is so full. I could write a big book on the subject of going out of this world gracefully.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are people who can write their memoirs with a reasonable amount of honesty, and there are people who simply cannot take them...selves seriously enough. I think I might be the first to admit that the sort of reticence which prevents a man from exploiting his own personality is really an inverted sort of egotism.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is too late in the century for women who have received the benefits of co-education in schools and colleges, and who bear their... full share in the world's work, not to care who make the laws, who expound and who administer them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
O thanks be to the great God I got somebody to give me what I badly wanted to put some heart up into me youve no chances at all in... this place like you used long ago I wish somebody would write me a loveletter....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And in a disused shed in Co. Wexford, Deep in the grounds of a burnt-out hotel,... Among the bathtubs and the washbasins A thousand mushrooms crowd to a keyhole.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Write to the point: say immediately what you want to say most, even if it doesn't "come first." There are three reasons for doing ...this. First, you will then have said it, even if nothing else gets said. Second, your readers will then have read it, even if they read no more. Third, having said it, you are likely to have to say something more, because you will have to explain and justify what you chose to say.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »