Moments of kindness and reconciliation are worth having, even if the parting has to come sooner or later.

For years and years I thought that stories were just practice, till I got time to write a novel.

It’s just life. You can’t beat life.

And did I not think then, What nonsense it is to suppose one man so different from another when all that life really boils down to is getting a decent cup of coffee and room to stretch out in?

You want in all cases for the story to get through the writing.

In my own work, I tend to cover a lot of time and to jump back and forward in time, and sometimes the way I do this is not very straightforward.

Always remember that when a man goes out of the room, he leaves everything in it behind. When a woman goes out she carries everything that happened in the room along with her.