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

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.

Wanting is the beginning of getting.

If books were Persian carpets, one would not look only at the outer side. because it is the stitch that makes a carpet wear, gives it its life and bloom.

For an author nothing is as dead as a book once it is written.

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

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