To be a classic, a novel should be original.
Ten thousand years of civilization shed in an instant when you put a woman behind the wheel of a car.
I can't exist without books.
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.
we dislike those we've injured.
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.