My stories are never quite good enough

It seems to me that good novels celebrate the mystery in ordinary life, and summing it all up in psychological terms strips the mystery away

I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get

In real life I avoid all parties altogether, but on paper I can mingle with the best of them

The Amateur Marriage grew out of the reflection that of all the opportunities to show differences in character, surely an unhappy marriage must be the richest.

I save the best of myself for novels, and I believe it shows

I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive.