For she was of that generation who, having found nothing in religion, had formed themselves through literature.

It usually takes me a year to do a book. A year or eighteen months.

A woman writer, quitting love before literature when love lets her down, will put literature before love.

If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.

After a certain age - and for some of us that can be very young - there are no new people, beasts, dreams, faces, events: it has all happened before.

You can't be a Red if you're married to a civil servant.

What I really can't stand about the feminist revolution is that it produced some of the smuggest, most unselfcritical people the world has ever seen. They are horrible.