That Was The Tragedy. Not That One

They Looked Down On Her; And She Looked Up Through Them.

On The Whole, Dialogue Is The Most Difficult Thing, Without Any Doubt. It's Very Difficult, Unfortunately. You Have To Detach Yourself From The Notion Of A Lifelike Quality. You See, Actually Lifelike, Tape-recorded Dialogue Like This Has Very Little To Do With Good Novel Dialogue. It's A Matter Of Getting That Awful Tyranny Of Mimesis Out Of Your Mind, Which Is Difficult.

Content Is A Word Unknown To Life; It Is Also A Word Unknown To Man.

Being An Atheist Is A Matter Not Of Moral Choice, But Of Human Obligation.

All Novelists Should Live In Two Different Worlds: A Real One And An Unreal One.