Autumn arrives in the early morning.

What is being said is the effect of something that has happened; at the same time, what is being said is in itself something happening, which will, in turn, leave its effect.

Jane Austen, much in advance of her day, was a mistress of the use of the dialogue. She used it as dialogue should be used-to advance the story; not only to show the characters, but to advance.

Raids are slightly constipating.

Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone.

Temperamentally, the writer exists on happenings, on contacts, conflicts, action and reaction, speed, pressure, tension. Were he acontemplative purely, he would not write.

The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written.