Though while at South Kensington I took a few prizes in the National Competition, I did not get near to having a style of my own.
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If I loved all the world as I do you, I shouldn't write books to it: I should only write letters to it, and that would be only a clumsy stage on the way to entire telepathy.Laurence Housman
If I live for another ten years I shall probably have written all that I want to write.
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But it has also enabled me to find my feet as a lecturer and a reader of my own plays to audiences who like to hear them; and that experience of immediate appreciation gives greater pleasure and more stimulus towards further activity than even the most laudatory of reviews.
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It is right and natural that generous minds while in the twenties should think the books which try to reform the world's wrong the greatest of all.
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On that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world.
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My brother used to say that I wrote faster than he could read. He wrote two books - of poems - better than all mine put together.
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