The world was going on as usual. All the time she was writing the world had continued.

Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.

There is no doubt in my mind, that I have found out how to begin (at 40) to say something in my own voice.

As a creator of character his peculiarity is that he creates wherever his eyes rest ... With such a power at his command Dickens made his books blaze up, not by tightening the plot or sharpening the wit, but by throwing another handful of people upon the fire.

No sooner have you feasted on beauty with your eyes than your mind tells you that beauty is vain and beauty passes

What is the meaning of life? That was all- a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years, the great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead, there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark; here was one.

Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.