it never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls.

Goodness, Truth and Beauty come first

sooner or later I do what I want to do.

Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid.

Interviews can be stimulating. It depends on the intelligence of the interviewer.

The true novelist is one who understands the work as a continuous poem, is a myth-maker, and the wonder of the art resides in the endless different ways of telling a story.

Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.