It is not so with the more dynamic personality of the over-sea citizen.

For a time at least he remains in the old civilisation an entity, an isolated, unabsorbed fact which has capacities for explosion.

All this was in my mind when The Trespasser was written, and its converse was 'The Pomp of the Lavilettes', which showed the invasion of the life of the outer land by the representative of the old civilisation.
I do not know whether I had the thought that the treatment of such themes was interesting or not.

The idea of The Trespasser was there in my mind, and I had to use it.

At the beginning of one's career, if one were to calculate too carefully, impulse, momentum, daring, original conception would be lost.