Sentimentality - that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.
The trouble is I don't believe my unbelief.
Suffering is not increased by numbers; one body can contain all the suffering the world can feel.
All good novelists have bad memories. What you remember comes out as journalism; what you forget goes into the compost of the imagination.
Innocence is a kind of insanity
Melodrama is one of my working tools and it enables me to obtain effects that would be unobtainable otherwise; on the other hand I am not deliberately melodramatic; don't get too annoyed if I say that I write in the way that I do because I am what I am.