A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outlines and covering up the details...

For a creative writer possession of the ''truth'' is less important than emotional sincerity.

I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created a sort of private world in which I could get my own back for my failure in everyday life.

Beware of my partisanship, my mistakes of fact and the distortion inevitably caused by my having seen only one corner of events.

We all are capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then when we are finally are proved wrong,impudently twist the facts so as to show we were right.

Never use the passive where you can use the active.