That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things.

every short story is an experiment - what one must ask is not only, did it come off, but was it, as an experiment, worth making?

Love of privacy - perhaps because of the increasing exactions of society - has become in many people almost pathological.

Characters should on the whole, be under rather than over articulate. What they intend to say should be more evident, more striking (because of its greater inner importance to the plot) than what they arrive at saying.

Yes, writing a novel, my boy, is like driving pigs to market - you have one of them making a bolt down the wrong lane; another won't get over the right stile.

It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home.

I do like Italian graves; they look so much more lived in.