If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens.

Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would.

There is no real escape from autobiography into biography. The self has to be faced, or we die.

A 'weakness,' I now realize, is nothing but a strength not properly developed.

Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest.

Sound waves do not die out. They travel forever and forever. All our sentences are immortal. Our useless bleatings circle the universe for all eternity.

I didn't even know I was a feminist until I read it on the back of one of my own books.