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

Like most uneducated Englishwomen, I like reading--I like reading books in the bulk.

I believe that the main thing in beginning a novel is to feel, not that you can write it, but that it exists on the far side of a gulf, which words can't cross: that it's to be pulled through only in a breathless anguish.

Methinks the human method of expression by sound of tongue is very elementary, and ought to be substituted for some ingenious invention which should be able to give vent to at least six coherent sentences at once.

For now she need not think of anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of - to think; well not even to think. To be silent; to be alone.

We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.

King old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always to to a good man, they say.