"If There Weren't So Many Lies In The World..."

Coming down from the ridge, Lawrence pondered his future. Though his publishers were eager for him to write another novel, he said, he felt he did not want to; he would not do it. "If there weren't so many lies in the world," he said, looking at me earnestly, "I would not write at all."

--Brewster Ghiselin's recollection of a conversation he had with D. H. Lawrence in Bandol, France, 1929.

D. H. Lawrence: A Composite Biography, edited by Edward Nehls, vol. III, Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press (1959), 293.