The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.
The human face is, after all, nothing more nor less than a mask.
She was a lucky woman who had established a happy knack of writing what quite a lot of people wanted to read.
The truth often does sound unconvincing.
Best of an island is once you get there - you can't go any farther...you've come to the end of things.
Trains are wonderful.... To travel by train is to see nature and human beings, towns and churches and rivers, in fact, to see life.