If I am a prolific writer and turn my hand, with what seems to some as indecent haste, from novels to screenplays to stage and radio plays, it is because there is so much to be said, so few of us to say it, and time runs out.

Confidence is something one acquires. It can come early or late but it is impossible to write without it. Mine came late.

one tends to suspect others of what one is guilty of oneself. The unfaithful wife is quick to suspect the husband of infidelity.

The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world.

Prudence says one thing, desire says another, and I'd rather go with desire any time.

Poetry, I thought then, and still do, is a matter of space on the page interrupted by a few well-chosen words, to give them importance. Prose is a less grand affair which has to stretch to the edges of the page to be convincing.

If you put a woman in a man's position, she will be more efficient, but no more kind.