The makers of the short story have rarely been good novelists.

One recalls how much the creative impulse of the best-sellers depends upon self-pity. It is an emotion of great dramatic potential.

The makers of the short story have rarely been good novelists.

Those mausoleums of inactive masculinity are places for men who prefer armchairs to women.

It's very important to feel foreign. I was born in England, but when I'm being a writer, everyone in England is foreign to me.

Detective stories are the art-for-art's sake of yawning Philistinism.

There is more magic in sin if it is not committed.