I can't imagine why everybody is always so keen for authors to talk about writing. I should have thought it was an author's business to write, not talk.

I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.

I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas.

Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master.

Courage is the resolution to face the unforeseen.

Fear is incomplete knowledge.

God bless my soul, woman, the more personal you are the better! This is a story of human beings - not dummies! Be personal - be prejudiced - be catty - be anything you please! Write the thing your own way. We can always prune out the bits that are libellous afterwards!