The hand that holds the money cracks the whip.

A home is not a museum. It doesn't have to be furnished with Picasso paintings, or Sheraton suites, or Oriental rugs, or Chinese pottery. But it does have to be furnished with things that mean something to you.

You have to wait for your mind to catch up with whatever it is it’s working on; then you can write a novel.

I had killed a man, for money and a woman. I didn't have the money and I didn't have the woman.

Writing a novel is like working on foreign policy. There are problems to be solved. It's not all inspirational.

She was a little given to rehearsing things in her mind, and having imaginary triumphs over people who had upset her in one way and another.

Love, when you get fear in it, it's not love any more. It's hate.