What a writer's obituary should read - he wrote the books, then he died.

You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.

With me, a story usually begins with a single idea or mental picture. The writing of the story is simply a matter of working up to that moment, to explain why it happened or what caused it to follow.

War is an episode, a crisis, a fever the purpose of which is to rid the body of fever. So the purpose of a war is to end the war.

Pointless. . . . Like giving caviar to an elephant.

I am not one of those women who can stand things.

There is no such thing as was - only is. If was existed, there would be no grief or sorrow.