Rebecca West

Rebecca West (1892-1983) (nee Cecily Isabel Andrews Fairfield; Corrine Andrews) was an English writer, novelist, critic and journalist. Her famous works include The Return of the Soldier, The Thinking Reed, and Black Lamb and Grey Falcon.

Wisdom & Quotes

• Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs.

- The Art of Skepticism

• Literature must be an analysis of experience and a synthesis of the findings into a unity.

- Ending in Earnest

• People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.
• It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to write a historical work. He would then realize that the human race is in quite a jam about truth.

Djuna Barnes