Nothing really frightens me but the idea of enforced idleness. As long as I can write books, even though they be not published, I think that I can be happy.


letter to Henry Merivale Trollope, 21 December 1880, in N. John Hall (ed.) The Letters of Anthony Trollope (1983)


Nothing really frightens me but the idea of enforced idleness. As long as I can write books, even though they be not published, I think that I can be ...

Nothing really frightens me but the idea of enforced idleness. As long as I can write books, even though they be not published, I think that I can be ...

Nothing really frightens me but the idea of enforced idleness. As long as I can write books, even though they be not published, I think that I can be ...

Nothing really frightens me but the idea of enforced idleness. As long as I can write books, even though they be not published, I think that I can be ...