J. L. Carr quotes:

People one doesn't care for, even dislike, make most of us feel uneasy when they appeal against their sentence.

You have not had thirty years' experience . . . You have had one year's experience 30 times.

The first breath of autumn was in the air, a prodigal feeling, a feeling of wanting, taking, and keeping before it is too late.

Novel-writing can be a cold-blooded business. One uses whatever happens to be lying around in memory and employs it to suit one's end"¦.Then, again, during the months whilst one is writing about the past, a story is colored by what presently is happening to its writer. So, imperceptibly, the tone of voice changes, original intentions slip away. And I found myself looking through another window at a darker landscape inhabited by neither the present nor the past.

A school is not a factory. Its raison d'être is to provide opportunity for experience.