[On writing:] What a difficult kind of work to choose! But of course one did not choose it. There was no choice.

We none of us talk to people as we do behind their backs.

The plot is not very important to me, though a novel must have one, of course. It's just a line to hang the washing on.

As regards plot I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots. And as I think a plot desirable and almost necessary, I have this extra grudge against life.

We are always children to our mothers.

It will be a beautiful family talk, mean and worried and full of sorrow and spite and excitement.

As regards plots I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots.