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

Often on a wet day I begin counting up; what I've read; what I haven't read.

They lack suggestive power. And when a book lacks suggestive power, however hard it hits the surface of the mind it cannot penetrate within.

I want to write a novel about Silence," he said; “the things people don’t say.

to write a novel in the heart of London is next to an impossibility. I feel as if I were nailing a flag to the top of a mast in a raging gale.

Let us not take for granted that life exists more fully in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small.

Dance music ... stirs some barbaric instinct - lulled asleep in our sober lives - you forget centuries of civilization in a second, & yield to that strange passion which sends you madly whirling round the room.