You can't do such a lot and do it all so well and have much time left for the ordinary human feelings.

When there is too much to say it is easier to say nothing at all.

Husbands and wives quarrel a lot more than anyone thinks, and it's oftener about little things than big ones.

Any road is bound to arrive somewhere if you follow it far enough

The fact is, people who don't have any misfortunes are very irritating to their neighbours. No opportunities for popping in with condolences and new-laid eggs. No visits to the afflicted. No opportunities for the milk of human kindness to flow. Naturally it doesn't.

A good many established writers seem to have the feeling that some day they are going to be found out, revealed as frauds.

There is and always has been for me a peculiar need to write. This is very different from wanting to be a writer. To be a writer always seemed something so far removed from my talents and abilities and imaginings that it didn't afflict me at all as a notion when I was young. But I was always conscious that I wanted to write.