Never Is A Long Word.

Anyone Who Picks Up A Compton-burnett Finds It Very Hard Not To Put It Down.

Most Of The Pleasure Of Making A Book Would Go If It Held Nothing To Be Shared By Other People. I Would Write For A Few Dozen People, And Sometimes It Seems That I Do So, But I Would Not Write For No-one.

Charm Should Be On The Surface. It Has No Hidden Use.

A Leopard Does Not Change His Spots, Or Change His Feeling That Spots Are Rather A Credit.

I Never Agree With The Compliments Paid To It. It Is Not A Great Healer. It Is An Indifferent And Perfunctory One. Sometimes It Does Not Heal At All. And Sometimes When It Seems To, No Healing Has Been Necessary.