If I knew what the meanings of my books were, I wouldn't have bothered to write them.

Nothing fails like failure

London, how could one ever be tired of it?

Some of what we read in classical literature is not relative to our condition, but then many women novelists and poets have turned it upside down and told the stories from the other point of view.

The women are always vixens or monsters. They can't just be normal people in the book.

I'd rather be at the end of a dying tradition, which I admire, than at the beginning of a tradition which I deplore.

Scenery can be a violent stimulant.