Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.

I think the main thing, don't you, is to keep the show on the road.

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.

I became, and remain, my characters' close and intent watcher: their director, never. Their creator I cannot feel that I was, or am.

No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

Revenge was a very wild kind of justice.