4/9 I was looking at them the other day. Why, they are nothing to what I have felt. I sometimes think if _I_ wrote a book--I don't mean that I have any special talent--but if I really sat down and wrote a book with all the deep side of life in it, and one's own religious feelings, and described love and love's tragedy as they really are, what a sensation it would make! It would take the world by storm." "Any book dealing sincerely with one of those subjects could not fail to be a great success." "Oh yes. I am not afraid I should fail. |