Every island to a child is a treasure island.

Don't just plan to write - write. It is only by writing, not dreaming about it, that we develop our own style.

All these problems [deciding cases] are easier for people who believe in God. Those of us who don't or can't have to do the best we can. That's what the law is, the best we can do. Human justice is imperfect, but it's the only justice we have.

It is always easy to question the judgement of others in matters of which we may be imperfectly informed.

The tragedy of loss is not that we grieve, but that we cease to grieve, and then perhaps the dead are dead at last.

All fiction is largely autobiographical and much autobiography is, of course, fiction.

Write what you need to write, not what is currently popular or what you think will sell.