I'm afraid of death... Yes, but that doesn't stop death coming.

It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.

You're shocked, Mr. Burton, at hearing what our gossiping little town thinks. I can tell you this - they always think the worst!

But no artist, I now realize, can be satisfied with art alone. There is a natural craving for recognition which cannot be gain-said.

One knows so little. When one knows more it is too late.

She was a lucky woman who had established a happy knack of writing what quite a lot of people wanted to read.

There was a moment when I changed from an amateur to a professional. I assumed the burden of a profession, which is to write even when you don't want to, don't much like what you're writing, and aren't writing particularly well