People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have become very successful liars.

To hell with them. Nothing hurts if you don't let it.

If you have to go away,' she said,'is it absolutely necessary to kill off everything you leave behind? I mean do you have to take away everything?

One battle doesn't make a campagin, but critics treat one book, good or bad, like a whole war.

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one you feel that it all happened to you and after which it all belongs to you.

I do not think I had ever seen a nastier-looking man. Under the black hat, when I had first seen them, the eyes had been those of an unsuccessful rapist.

War is not won by victory.