“but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.”
“[I]f a book is well written, I always find it too short.”
“I . . . am always half afraid of finding a clever novel too clever--& of finding my own story & my own people all forestalled.”
“This book made me feel strangely awkward, because I'm afraid of finding my own story in it. I take books too seriously.”
“Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
“And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.”