I am suspicious of both facility and speed.

What a fortunate fellow I am, I kept telling myself. Nobody has ever had such a lovely time as this!

Here it is,' Nigel said. Mrs D, Mrs I, Mrs FFI, Mrs C, Mrs U, Mrs LTY. That spells difficulty.' How perfectly ridiculous!' snorted Miss Trunchbull. 'Why are all these women married?

Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.

There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.

There is something about very cold weather that gives one an enormous appetite. Most of us find ourselves beginning to crave rich steaming stews and hot apple pies and all kinds of delicious warming dishes; and because we are all a great deal luckier than we realize, we usually get what we want—or near enough.

To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.