“For it is not the bare Words, but the Scope of the writer that giveth true light,”

“Crown and cloth maken no priest, nor emperor's bishop with his words, but power that crist giveth; and thus by life have been priests known.”

“Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which shakes off torpor, the surprising things which surround us and which our senses record mechanically.”

“Scouting is not an abstruse or difficult science: rather it is a jolly game if you take it in the right light. In the same time it is educative, and (like Mercy) it is apt to benefit him that giveth as well as him that receives.”

“We writers are shy, nocturnal creatures. Push us into the light and the light blinds us.”

“Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.”

“Of compelling consideration is the fact that words acquire scope and function from the history of events which they summarize.”

“Your only responsibility as a writer is to be true to the story that has chosen you as its writer.”

“It is probably true to say that the largest scope for change still lies in men’s attitude to women, and in women’s attitude to themselves.”

“Not every light is a true light;
To the wise the light of truth is light itself.”