Of course one never knows in draft if it's going to turn out, even with my age and experience.

It's only by being obstinate that anything is got, or done.

Every piece of writing starts from what I call a grit a sight or sound, a sentence or happening that does not pass away but quite inexplicably lodges in the mind.

cleverness is a disease.

To wake for the first time in a new place can be like another birth.

In good company your thoughts run, in solitude your thought is still ... In talk your mind can be stretched, widened, exhilarated to heights, but it cannot be deepened; you have to deepen it yourself.

A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy. Rumer Godden found in Power of Simple Living by Ellyn Sanna