"Walking was not fast enough, so we ran. Running was not fast enough, so we galloped. Galloping was not fast enough, so we sailed. Sailing was not fast enough, so we rolled merrily along on long metal tracks. Long metal tracks were not fast enough, so we drove. Driving was not fast enough, so we flew. Flying isn't fast enough for us. We want to get there faster. Get where? Wherever we are not. But a human soul can only go as fast as a man can walk, they used to say. In that case, where are all the souls? Left behind."

You may also like:

• 

  Alice Munro
  Author

• 

  Doris Lessing
  Novelist

• 

  Jane Austen
  Novelist

• 

  Jeanette Winterson
  Writer

• 

  Kazuo Ishiguro
  Novelist

• 

  Margaret Laurence
  Novelist

• 

  Toni Morrison
  Novelist

• 

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  Author

• 

  Virginia Woolf
  Writer