I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all.

Look after your laundry, and your soul will look after itself.

The author always loads his dice, but he must never let the reader see that he has done so.

You can never know enough about your characters

It is one of the defects of my character that I cannot altogether dislike anyone who makes me laugh.

The value of culture is its effect on character. It avails nothing unless it ennobles and strengthens that. Its use is for life. Its aim is not beauty but goodness.

There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.