"Rebecca [West] can handle a pen as..." - Quote by George Bernard Shaw

“The sound body is the product of the sound mind.”

“I sing, not arms and the hero, but the philosophic man: he who seeks in contemplation to discover the inner will of the world, ininvention to discover the means of fulfilling that will, and in action to do that will by the so-discovered means.”

“A man who loses his money gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better.”

“If ever you've been down in the dumps, hear these iconic authors share with you more than their writing wisdom.”

“For weeks past he had been making ready for this moment, and it had never crossed his mind that anything would be needed except courage. The actual writing would be easy. All he had to do was to transfer to paper the interminable restless monologue that had been running inside his head, literally for years.”

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”

“A reader is doubly guilty of bad manners against an author when he praises his second book at the expense of his first (or vice versa) and then expects the author to be grateful for what he has done.”

“I am one thing, my writings are another.”

“Most characters are composed of snippets here and there of people I've known, and all rolled into the character I've created. They do become like their own people.”