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I still think that if the human race, or even one nation, could only get right about its God the rest would follow.
If I live for another ten years I shall probably have written all that I want to write.
It is right and natural that generous minds while in the twenties should think the books which try to reform the world's wrong the greatest of... →
Life is the most versatile thing under the sun; and in the pursuit of life and character the author who works in a groove works in blinkers.
My brother used to say that I wrote faster than he could read. He wrote two books - of poems - better than all mine put together.
On that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world.
But it has also enabled me to find my feet as a lecturer and a reader of my own plays to audiences who like to hear them; and that experience of... →
I have always been a writer of letters, and of long ones; so, when I first thought of writing a book in the form of letters, I knew that I could do... →
It is the sincerest thing I have written, caught by the drama of a soul struggling in the contrary toils of love and religion - death brought them... →
It was then, I think, that I discovered that the best way of bringing a medieval subject home to my generation was not to be medieval in its... →
My best chance is that, in a happy moment, I hit upon St Francis as the subject for a series of plays. Others might have written them better: but, as... →
That was luck: I should not then have been a conscientious objector; but I am quite sure that the abominations of war would have made me one, as soon... →