It would be no loss to the world if most of the writers now writing had been strangled at birth. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
When anything important has to be written ... I think your hand concentrates for you. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
I really write to find out what I know about something and what is to be known about something. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to write a… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
I have never been able to write with anything more than the left hand of my mind; the right hand has always… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
My memory is certainly in my hands. I can remember things only if I have a pencil and I can write with… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Babbitt as a book was planless; its end arrived apparently because its author had come to the end of the writing-pad, or… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Any writer worth his salt knows that only a small proportion of literature does nore than partly compensate people for the damage… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
No one can write a best-seller by taking thought. The slightest touch of insincerity blurs its appeal. The writer who keeps his… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Writers on the subject of August Strindberg have hitherto omitted to mention that he could not write. ... Strindberg, who was neither… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
I see the main problem of my life, and indeed anybody's life, as the balancing of competitive freedoms ... a sense of mutual obligations… — Rebecca West Copy Share
“There is, of course, no reason for the existence of the male sex except that sometimes one needs help with moving the piano.” — Rebecca West Copy Share
“At the top of a hill our automobile stuck in a snowdrift. Peasants ran out of a cottage near by, shouting with laughter because… — Rebecca West Copy Share
We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the… — Rebecca West Copy Share
Christianity must be regarded not as a final revelation but as a phase of revelation. — Rebecca West Copy Share
Art and propaganda have this much connection, that if a propaganda makes art impossible, it is clearly damned. — Rebecca West Copy Share
The American struggle for the vote was much more difficult than the English for the simple reason that it was much more easy. — Rebecca West Copy Share
Like all bad drivers, he [Henry Andrews] thought he was the best driver in the world... — Rebecca West Copy Share
The childhood of the individual and the race is full of fears, and panic-stricken attempts to avert what is feared by placating the gods… — Rebecca West Copy Share
[On Jane Austen:] To believe her limited in range because she was harmonious in method is as sensible as to imagine that when the… — Rebecca West Copy Share
a good oyster cannot please the palate as acutely as a bad one can revolt it, and a good oyster cannot make him who… — Rebecca West Copy Share
If there is a God, I don't think He would demand that anyone bow down or stand up to Him. I often have a… — Rebecca West Copy Share
Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience. — Rebecca West Copy Share
... there has never been a period in history when there have been necessary killings which has not been instantly followed by a period… — Rebecca West Copy Share
