There's a nobility in his eye, a regal serenity about him. Does he not personify all that men try to be and never can be?

But I didn’t dare. That has always been my trouble. I’ve never dared enough.

Always write your ideas down however silly or trivial they might seem. Keep a notebook with you at all times.

When I write I try as far as possible to forget I'm writing it at all. I tell it down onto the page, as if I'm telling it to one person only, my best friend.

Blind terror drove me on, with my flying stirrups whipping me into a frenzy. With no rider to carry I reached the kneeling riflemen first and they scattered as I came upon them.

Any problem can be solved between people if only they can trust each other

Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because readers like happy endings, but because I am an optimist at heart.