How can I understand so many other people?
I cannot fathom them.

My own children often surprise me.

If I believed thoroughly in the children of my pen, they would write themselves down sometimes in a fashion that I had not intended." "John talks like a book," observed Valentine.

"You propose a subject, and he lays forth his views as if he had considered it for a week.
'Drive on, Samivel.'" "But I don't agree with him," said Miss Christie.

"When I read a book I aye dislike to be left in any doubt what the man means or what the story means." "I always think it a great proof of power in a writer," said Brandon, "when he consciously or unconsciously makes his reader feel that he knows a vast deal more about his characters than he has chosen to tell.
And what a keen sense some have of the reality of their invented men and women! So much so that you may occasionally see evident tokens that they are jealous of them.