While thoughts exist, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living.
The only way for writers to meet is to share a quick peek over a common lamp-post.
A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends.
Promise is the capacity for letting people down.
The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.
He [George Orwell] would not blow his nose without moralising on conditions in the handkerchief industry.