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Isn't the writing of good prose an emotional excitement?""Yes, of course it is. At least, when you get the thing dead right and know it's dead right, ...more

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this is the weakness of most 'edifying' or 'propaganda' literature. There is no diversity...You cannot, in fact, give God His due without giving the d...more

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The characteristic common to God and man is apparently that: the desire and the ability to make things.

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A man once asked me ... how I managed in my books to write such natural conversation between men when they were by themselves. Was I, by any chance, a...more

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I am occasionally desired by congenital imbeciles and the editors of magazines to say something about the writing of detective fiction “from the woman...more

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For God's sake, let's take the word 'possess' and put a brick round its neck and drown it ... We can't possess one another. We can only give and hazar...more

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She reflected she must be completely besotted with Peter, if his laughter could hallow an aspidistra.

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He remembered having said to his uncle (with a solemn dogmatism better befitting a much younger man): "Surely it is possible to love with the head as ...more

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How can I find the words? Poets have taken them all and left me with nothing to say or do""Except to teach me for the first time what they meant.

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Here be dragons to be slain, here be rich rewards to gain;If we perish in the seeking, why, how small a thing is death!

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For whatever reason God chose to make man as he is— limited and suffering and subject to sorrows and death—He had the honesty and the courage to take ...more

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She had her image… and anything added to that would be mere verse-making. Something might come of it some day. In the meanwhile she had got her mood o...more

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Persons curious in chronology may, if they like, work out from what they already know of the Wimsey family that the action of the book takes place in ...more

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Listen, Harriet. I do unterstand. I know you don't want either to give or to take ... You don't want ever again to have to depend for happiness on ano...more

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That this is really the case was made plain to me by the questions asked me, mostly by young men, about my Canterbury play, The Zeal of Thy House. The...more