A writer who has never explored words, who has never searched, seeded, sieved, sifted through his knowledge and memory...dictiona ries, thesaurus, poems, favorite paragraphs, to find the right word, is like someone owning a gold mine who has never mined it.

Once you have felt the Indian dust, you will never be free of it.

I loved Mr. Darcy far more than any of my own husbands.

Every time a child, any child, is born, it is new - and different; that is the wonder.

It is an anxious, sometimes a dangerous thing to be a doll. Dolls cannot choose; they can only be chosen; they cannot 'do'; they can only be done by.

You must remember garden catalogues are as big liars as house-agents.

With everything that happens to you, with everyone you meet who is important to you, you either die a little or are born.