You have many fine qualities that I admire. But you are out of time. You should have been born a century ago, when values such as yours meant something.

Every book should have a romance.

Because there's someone else here in East Carmin. Someone hopelessly unsuitable. It's all a really bad idea and will lead to trouble of the worst sort. But no matter what, every minute in her presence makes my life a minute more complete.

The barriers between reality and fiction are softer than we think; a bit like a frozen lake. Hundreds of people can walk across it, but then one evening a thin spot develops and someone falls through; the hole is frozen over by the following morning.

Writing is a subtle art that is reached mostly by self-discovery and experimentation.

He set fire to some potatoes, then cooked some undelivered post in the embers." - Dad "Did he now? What a strange fellow. I would have done it the other way around." - Stafford

A surfeit of information often hides an untruth,” he said, with annoying clarity.