My holy of holies is the human body.

When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured.

A good upbringing means not that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice it when someone else does.

I let myself go at the beginning and write with an easy mind, but by the time I get to the middle I begin to grow timid and to fear my story will be too long. . .That is why the beginning of my stories is always very promising and looks as though I were starting on a novel, and the middle is huddled and timid, and the end is...like fireworks.

You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.

I kept thinking how marvellous it would be if I could somehow tear my heart, which felt so heavy, out of my chest.

Anyone who says the artist's field is all answers and no questions has never done any writing or had any dealings with imageryYou are confusing two concepts: answering the questions and formulating them correctly. Only the latter is required of an author.