A man wants nothing so badly as a gooseberry farm.
When you want to touch the reader's heart, try to be colder. It gives their grief as it were, a background, against which it stands out in greater relief.
People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.
If I had listened to the critics I'd have died drunk in the gutter
The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
A woman can become a man's friend only in the following stages - first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend.