To be a classic, a novel should be original.

I really do literally put myself into a character's shoes.

We don't say a man's ill if he's crazy about sex, if he can't get enough sex. Why should a woman be different?

It is not so much true that the world loves a lover as that the lover loves all the world.

I get a lot of letters from people. They say "I want to be a writer. What should I do?" I tell them to stop writing to me and to get on with it.

The trouble with psychology is that it doesn't take human nature into account.

The knives of jealousy are honed on details.