Well,' said Mrs Smiling, 'it sounds an appalling place, but in a different way from all the others. I mean, it does sound interesting and appalling, while the others just sound appalling.
Stella GibbonsWell, when I am fifty-three or so I would like to write a novel as good as Persuasion but with a modern setting, of course. For the next thirty years or so I shall be collecting material for it. If anyone asks me what I work at, I shall say, 'Collecting material'. No one can object to that.
Stella GibbonsThere are some things (like first love and oneโs first reviews) at which a woman in her middle years does not care to look too closely.
Stella GibbonsNature is all very well in her place, but she must not be allowed to make things untidy.
Stella Gibbons