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My brother used to say that I wrote faster than he could read. He wrote two books - of poems - better than all mine put together.
If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family.
The man who bears my name, and who claims to be me, was born on July 15, 1865, the sixth in a family of seven. He was an ugly child, and remained ugly till his eighteenth year, when his looks gradually improved.
It was then, I think, that I discovered that the best way of bringing a medieval subject home to my generation was not to be medieval in its treatment.
If I live for another ten years I shall probably have written all that I want to write.
On that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world.
But it has also enabled me to find my feet as a lecturer and a reader of my own plays to audiences who like to hear them; and that experience of immediate appreciation gives greater pleasure and more stimulus towards further activity than even the most laudatory of reviews.
Father eternal, ruler of creation, Spirit of life, which moved ere form was made Through the thick darkness covering every nation Light to man's blindness, O be Thou our aid.
My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the disappointment which it caused me, drove me the more persistently into writing as an alternative.
I believe absolutely in love being the central motive force of the universe.
I still think that if the human race, or even one nation, could only get right about its God the rest would follow.
Two more years were to go by before I knew anything about William Blake. Many years later, when his wife died, my godfather gave me the two books as a remembrance.
The modern form of things had begun to appeal to me, also (as material for satire) politics, and the lives of the great and little, high up in the social scale.
Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like.
For the last half of my life I have had the doubtful benefit of a brother whose literary reputation is much greater than my own.
I shall not die young, for I am already near seventy: I may die old.
