Dialogue should show the relationships among people.

There's something so showy about desperation, it takes hard wits to see it's a grandiose form of funk.

In big houses in which things are done properly, there is always the religious element. The diurnal cycle is observed with more feeling when there are servants to do the work.

rudeness to Mrs. Dosely was like dropping a pat of butter on to a hot plate - it slid and melted away.

Dialogue in fiction is what characters do to one another.

Two things are terrible in childhood: helplessness (being in other people's power) and apprehension - the apprehension that something is being concealed from us because it is too bad to be told.

Autumn arrives in the early morning.