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.
The makers of the short story have rarely been good novelists.
Detective stories are the art-for-art's sake of yawning Philistinism.
A touch of science, even bogus science, gives an edge to the superstitious tale.
Queen Victoria - a mixture of national landlady and actress.
The businessman who is a novelist is able to drop in on literature and feel no suicidal loss of esteem if the lady is not at home, and he can spend his life preparing without fuss for the awful interview.