I do not approve of children being beaten. It is always a confession of failure.
Patricia Wentworth
I do not approve of children ...
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There is and always has been for me a peculiar need to write. This is very different from wanting to be a writer. To be a writer always seemed something so far removed from my talents and abilities and imaginings that it didn't afflict me at all as a notion when I was young. But I was always conscious that I wanted to write.
Patricia Wentworth
there are virtues which are very well in the abstract, but which, encountered in the flesh, can be a source of extreme irritation.
Patricia Wentworth
Nobody likes to be accused of a virtue.
Patricia Wentworth
A good many established writers seem to have the feeling that some day they are going to be found out, revealed as frauds.
Patricia Wentworth
