Katherine Mansfield Quote

Would you not like to try all sorts of lives — one is so very small — but that is the satisfaction of writing — one can impersonate so many people.


Letter to Sylvia Payne (24 April 1906), from The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield (1984-1996), vol. I


Would you not like to try all sorts of lives — one is so very small — but that is the satisfaction of writing — one can impersonate so many...

Would you not like to try all sorts of lives — one is so very small — but that is the satisfaction of writing — one can impersonate so many...

Would you not like to try all sorts of lives — one is so very small — but that is the satisfaction of writing — one can impersonate so many...

Would you not like to try all sorts of lives — one is so very small — but that is the satisfaction of writing — one can impersonate so many...