One sits uncomfortably on a too comfortable cushion.

If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.

It was an unspoken pleasure, that having come together so many years, ruined so much and repaired a little, we had endured.

A room of one's own isn't nearly enough. A house, or, best, an island of one's own.

It doesn't pay well to fight for what we believe in.

If you believe, as the Greeks did, that man is at the mercy of the gods, then you write tragedy. The end is inevitable from the beginning. But if you believe that man can solve his own problems and is at nobody's mercy, then you will probably write melodrama.

failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field.