Mediocre writers borrow; great writers steal.

Because I know that time is always time And place is always and only place.

Before a cat will condescend to treat you as a trusted friend, some little token of esteem is needed, like a dish of cream.

When we read of human beings behaving in certain ways, with the approval of the author, who gives his benediction to this behavior by his attitude towards the result of the behavior arranged by himself, we can be influenced towards behaving in the same way.

What profession is more trying than that of author? After you finish a piece of work it only seems good to you for a few weeks; or if it seems good at all you are convinced that it is the last you will be able to write; and if it seems bad you wonder whether everything you have done isn’t poor stuff really; and it is one kind of agony while you are writing, and another kind when you aren’t.

There will be time to murder and create.

History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors and issues.