To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.

Much of writing might be described as mental pregnancy with successive difficult deliveries.

Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.

If there is one thing left that I would like to do, it's to write something really beautiful. And I could do it, you know. I could still do it.

To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.

Write as often as possible, not with the idea at once of getting into print, but as if you were learning an instrument.

Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.