All Things Considered Book

I cannot understand the people who take literature seriously; but Ican love them, and I do. Out of my love I warn them to keep clear ofthis book. It is a collection of crude and shapeless papers upon currentor rather flying subjects; and they must be published pretty much asthey stand. They were written, as a rule, at the last moment; they werehanded in the moment before it was too late, and I do not think that ourcommonwealth would have been shaken to its foundations if they hadbeen handed in the moment after. They must go out now, with all theirimperfections on their head, or rather on mine; for their vices are toovital to be improved with a blue pencil, or with anything I can think of,except dynamite. -- G.K. Chesterton