“Art, though, is never the voice of a country; it is an even more precious thing, the voice of the individual, doing its best to speak, not comfort of any sort, but truth. And the art that speaks it most unmistakably, most directly, most variously, most fully, is fiction; in particular, the novel.”

“Art is never the voice of a country, it is an even more precious thing, the voice of the individual, doing its best to speak, not comfort of any sort, but truth. And the art that speaks it most unmistakably, most directly, most variously, most fully, is fiction.”

“The art that speaks [truth] most unmistakably, most directly, most variously, most fully, is fiction.”

“the voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls”

“Sometimes we do not hear the Whisperer even at her loudest because she speaks in our own voice, the one we most often discount.”

“They are more to me than life, these voices, they are more than motherliness and more than fear; they are the strongest, most comforting thing there is anywhere: they are the voices of my comrades.”