... appeals to memory were never perfectly answered.

All lives are interesting; no one life is more interesting than another. Its fascination depends on how much is revealed, and in what manner.

A writer's life stands in relation to his work as a house does to a garden, related but distinct.

I write every day as a matter of course It is not a burden. It is the way I live.

Decide what the rest of your life is to be. Whatever you are now, you might be forever.

A short story is what you see when you look out of the window.

I believed that if I was to call myself a writer, I should live on writing. If I could not live on it, even simply, I should destroy every scrap, every trace, every notebook and live some other way.