A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life, to be thankful for a good one.

A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life, to be thankful for a good one.

Food imaginatively and lovingly prepared, and eaten in good company, warms the being with something more than the mere intake of calories. I cannot conceive of cooking for friends or family, under reasonable conditions, as being a chore.

Personal publicity is apt to be dangerous to any writer's integrity; for the moment he begins to fancy himself as quite a person, a taint creeps into his work.

I have found that each of my books has developed out of something I have written in a previous book. Some thought evidently unfinished.

Life is strong stuff, some of us can bear more of it than others.

But to make the intangible tangible, to pick the emotion out of the air and make it true for others, is both the blessing and the curse of the writer, for the thing between book covers is never as beautiful as the thing he imagined.