Maybe being married is talking to oneself with one's other self listening.
I can't exist without books.
I think to be driven to want to kill must be such a terrible burden.
the English, although partakers in the most variable and quixotic climate in the world, never become used to its vagaries, but comment upon them with shock and resentment as if all their lives had been spent in the predictable monsoon.
I really do literally put myself into a character's shoes.
When one has children one has no privacy. They take it for granted that what is yours is theirs, personal things and the secrets of your heart, as well as possessions.