I'm not very interested in myself. I do have a deep moral belief that you should always look out at other things and not be self-centred.

I'm not very interested in myself. I do have a deep moral belief that you should always look out at other things and not be self-centred.

Art does not exist for politics, or for instruction- it exists primarily for pleasure, or it is nothing.

What I need to write well is a combination of heat, light and solitude.

In my mind's eye Shakespeare is a huge, hot sea-beast, with fire in his veins and ice on his claws and inscrutable eyes, who looks like an inchoate hump under the encrustations of live barnacle-commentaries, limpets and trailing weeds.

He felt changed, but there was no one to tell.

Independent women must expect more of themselves, since neither men nor other more conventionally domesticated women will hope for anything, or expect any result other than utter failure.