Ford's last Fifth Queen novel is amazing. The whole cycle is a noble conception.

Ford's last Fifth Queen novel is amazing. The whole cycle is a noble conception.

If you hunch your shoulders too long against a storm your shoulders will grow bowed.

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

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

The world is full of places to which I want to return

The object of the novelist is to keep the reader entirely oblivious of the fact that the author exists - even of the fact he is reading a book.