In this choice, as I look back over more than half a century, I can only follow - and trust - the same sort of instinct that one follows in the art of fiction.

For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.

In this choice, as I look back over more than half a century, I can only follow - and trust - the same sort of instinct that one follows in the art of fiction.

The answer, of course, in the mouth of a Christian teacher is that in Christianity alone is there both present joy and future hope.