Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a persons mind. – Rebecca West
It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk. – Rebecca West
God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide. – Rebecca West
It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to write a historical work. He would then realize that the human race is in quite a jam about truth. – Rebecca West