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That a work of creation struggles and insistently demands to be brought into being is a fact that no genuine artist would think of denying.

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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

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[O]ne can scarcely be frightened off writing what one wants to write for fear an obscure reviewer should patronise one on that account.

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The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one is expected to write; surely one can only write th...more

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[N]othing about a book is so unmistakable and so irreplaceable as the stamp of the cultured mind. I don't care what the story is about or what may be ...more

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The more genuinely creative [the writer] is, the more he will want his work to develop in accordance with its own nature, and to stand independent of ...more

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If God made everything, did He make the Devil?' This is the kind of embarrassing question which any child can ask before breakfast, and for which no n...more

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We may properly and profitably amuse ourselves by distinguishing those writers who are respectively 'father-ridden,' 'son-ridden,' and 'ghost-ridden.'...more

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It will be sent that, although the writer's love is verily a jealous love, it is a jealousy for and not of his creatures. He will tolerate no interfer...more