I enjoyed school, I was a bit of a square. I did very well in exams. I was quite lucky I was academic.
“Only the man who disciplines himself strictly can stand for long the terrific pace of modern war.”
“You are just in the middle of a struggle with words which are really very stubborn things, with a blank page, with the damn thing that you use to write with, a pen or a typewriter, and you forget all about the reader when you are doing that.”