I think to be driven to want to kill must be such a terrible burden.

I've had two proposals since I've been a widow. I am a wonderful catch, you know. I have a lot of money.

Nobody really lives in the present.

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.

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

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.