“I had to be intellectually satisfied as well as emotionally because at...” — Ruth Pitter Quote

“I had to be intellectually satisfied as well as emotionally because at that time of life one doesn't just fall into it in adolescent emotion, and I was satisfied at every point that it was the one way and the hard way to do things.”

“It seems to me that in our lifetime we have passed from the wreck of liberal humanism to the beginning of a new recognition of dogma: isn't it rather tremendous?”

“I am much interested and honoured by what you tell me of C. S. Lewis.”

“Novelist and poet David Huddle is a quiet but fabulous writer, and he does adolescent longing better than anyone I know.”

“While I've written in the POV (point of view) of adolescent characters before... I never have had to create novels in which those characters not only drive the plot, but also are instrumental in resolving whatever issue the plot deals with.”

“The British who arrived in the United States in the eighteen-thirties and forties had imagined the young republic as a wide-eyed adolescent, socially ungainly and politically gauche, but with some hint of promise.”