London, how could one ever be tired of it?

Scenery can be a violent stimulant.

I need words and print... I need print like an addict. I could live without it, perhaps. But I hope I never have to try.

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

How extraordinary people are, that they get themselves into such situations where they go on doing what they dislike doing, and have no need or obligation to do, simply because it seems to be expected.

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.

Nothing fails like failure