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.

Beware the ire of the calm.

If you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially some piece of writing or paper-work, you should acquire a cat . . .

How wonderful it feels to be an artist and a woman in the twentieth century.

I was just as anxious to prevent injustice as to cause justice.

It's a whydunnit in q-sharp major and it has a message: never talk to the sort of girls that you wouldn't leave lying about in your drawing-room for the servants to pick up.

Looking forward to going home, I was necessarily looking backward.