There is no feeling to be compared with the feeling of having written and finished a story.

There are always these moments in life when the limits of suffering are reached and we become heroes and heroines.

Whenever I prepare for a journey I prepare as though for death. Should I never return, all is in order.

The truth is that every true admirer of the novels cherishes the happy thought that he alone - reading between the lines - has bcome the secret friend of their author.

roses are the only flowers at garden-parties; the only flowers that everybody is certain of knowing.

Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all.

In fact, isn't it a joy - there is hardly a greater one - to find a new book, a living book, and to know that it will remain with you while life lasts?