Courage is like a disobedient dog, once it starts running away it flies all the faster for your attempts to recall it.

Bless you, my darling, and remember you are always in the heart - oh tucked so close there is no chance of escape - of your sister.

Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change.

No, no the mind I love must still have wild places - a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy grass, an overgrown litde wood, the chance of a snake or two (real snakes), a pool that nobody's fathomed the depth of, and paths threaded with those litde flowers planted by the wind.

I have such a horror of telegrams that ask me how I am!! I always want to reply dead.

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.

I'm a writer first and a woman after.