... it's always interesting when one doesn't see. If you don't see what a thing means, you must be looking at it wrong way round.

Very unfortunately, she had no husband. She had never had a husband, and therefore did not kill a husband.

Bitterness leads nowhere. It turns back on itself. It is the eternal cul-de-sac.

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find - at the age of fifty, say - that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about...It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you.

Everyone is a potential murderer-in everyone there arises from time to time thewish to kill-though not the will to kill.

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 would like it to be said that I was a good writer of detective and thriller stories.