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.

Instinct' usually just means our conditioning to believe this or believe that, without thinking to investigate.

When today's young woman says she isn't a feminist what she means is she isn't a lesbian and she doesn't hate men, she likes to wear make-up and she enjoys a laugh. In which she is no different from many an early feminist.

I know that I'm a real writer because sometimes I write a story just because I want to; not because someone's told me to.

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

If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens.

Ambition will, and should, always outstrip achievement.