Your vivid, exciting companionship in the office must not be your audience, you must find your own quiet center of life, and write from that to the world.

I wondered if the life that was right for one was ever right for two!

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.

I have not much faith in women in fiction.... Women are so horribly subjective and they have such scorn for the healthy commonplace. When a woman writes a story of adventure, a stout sea tale, a manly battle yarn, anything without wine, women, and love, then I will begin to hope for something great from them, not before.

The heart, when it is too much alive, aches for that brown earth, and ecstasy has no fear of death.

The trouble is you almost have to marry a man before you can find out the sort of wife he needs; and usually it's exactly the sort you are not.

William Tavener never heeded ominous forecasts in the domestic horizon, and he never looked for a storm until it broke.