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

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

Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.

A story is how we construct our experiences.

Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty - and vise versa. Don’t read a book out of its right time for you.

I don't know why I still find it so hard to accept that words are faulty and by their very nature innacurate

The art of living in a small town is one of the most difficult to acquire.