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!

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.

I know nothing - nothing in the world - of the hearts of men. I only know that I am alone - horribly alone.

He added that a Frenchman in the train had given him a great sandwich that so stank of garlic that he had been inclined to throw it at the fellow's head.

They were simple, earnest people, those early Victorians, and had not yet learnt the trick of avoiding disturbing thoughts and sights.

In every man there are two minds that work side by side, the one checking the other; thus emotion stands against reason, intellect corrects passion and first impressions act a little, but very little, before quick reflection.