The first thing you have to consider when writing a novel is your story, and then your story - and then your story!

The first thing you have to consider when writing a novel is your story, and then your story - and then your story!

Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst.

And it was a most remarkable, a most moving glance, as if for a moment a lighthouse had looked at me.

Six months ago I had never been to England, and, certainly, I had never sounded the depths of an English heart. I had known the shallows.

What the artist wishes to do — as far as you are concerned — is to take you out of yourself. As far as he is concerned, he wishes to express himself.

You have to wait together - for a week, for a year, for a lifetime, before the final intimate conversation may be attained ... and exhausted. So that ... That in effect was love.