Talents of the novelist: ... observation of character, analysis of emotion, people's feelings, personal relations.

Nothing, however, can be more arrogant, though nothing is commoner than to assume that of Gods there is only one, and of religions none but the speaker’s.

When the Day of Judgment dawns and people, great and small, come marching in to receive their heavenly rewards, the Almighty will gaze upon the mere bookworms and say to Peter, “Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them. They have loved reading.

We must reconcile ourselves to a season of failures and fragments.

Let us record the atoms as they fall upon the mind in the order in which they fall.

Why does one write these books after all? The drudgery, the misery, the grind, are forgotten everytime; and one launches another, and it seems sheer joy and buoyancy.

War is not women's history.