Reverence is fatal to literature.

If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run

I have always found writing pleasant and don't understand what people mean by 'throes of creation.'

If there is on earth a house with many mansions, it is the house of words.

Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer and of the recipient.

I have almost completed a long novel, but it is unpublishable until my death and England's.

One's favorite book is as elusive as one's favorite pudding.