I Think It Bespeaks A Generous Nature,

It Must Be A Terrible Pressure To Have To Go To The Office.

People Always Assume That Bachelors Are Single By Choice And Spinsters Because Nobody Asked Them. It Never Enters Their Heads That Poor Bachelors Might Have Worn The Knees Of Their Trousers Out Proposing To Girls Who Rejected Them Or That A Girl Might Deliberately Stay Unmarried.

I'd Never Have Written The Big Books In London.

Go To Lots Of Interviews, At Least One A Month Even When You Don't Need A Job, To Keep In Training For When You Do.

It's A Good Idea To Wait A Few Months Before Joining Anything When You Arrive At A Village. A Bookseller Friend Who Retired To Nearby Oxfordshire, And Was Worried He Might Be Bored, Got Himself On To Every Village Committee In The First Six Months, And Spent The Next Ten Years Extricating Himself.