“A little self-hatred keeps a person interesting”

“…the primary trait of young adult literature is that the author’s emphasis is on plot and character and not on his own brilliance. And because few people talk about whether a young adult work is commercial or literary; the two are still in sync, and everyone’s benefitting.”

“There are three conditions which often look alikeYet differ completely, flourish in the same hedgerow:Attachment to self and to things and to persons, detachmentFrom self and from things and from persons; and, growing between them, indifference, ... .”

“A kind Providence furnishes the limpest personality with a little gum or starch in the form of tradition.”

“We have all got to exert ourselves a little to keep sane, and call things by the same names as other people call them by.”

“The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.”

“No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest- for it is a part of education to learn to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude.”