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

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

Anyone who pretends not to be interested in money is either a fool or a knave.

Emotion which you do not share can become intolerable.

There's a general consensus of opinion that people in love are apt to look silly -- except to each other.

A lie that is half a truth is ever the hardest to fight.

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.