Characters are not created by writers. They pre-exist and have to be found.
I pity people who do not care for Society. They are poorer for the oblation they do not make.
When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.
I became, and remain, my characters' close and intent watcher: their director, never. Their creator I cannot feel that I was, or am.
Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.
Art is for [the Irish] inseparable from artifice: of that, the theatre is the home. Possibly, it was England made me a novelist.