I pulled myself up and told myself to stop these ridiculous thoughts, wondering why it is that we can never stop trying to analyse the motives of peo….

She set about preparing her supper. It would have to be one of those classically simple meals, the sort that French peasants are said to eat and that….

The small things of life were often so much bigger than the great things . . . the trivial pleasure like cooking, one's home, little poems especially….

How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it..

Novel writing is a kind of private pleasure, even if nothing comes of it in worldly terms..

I stretched out my hand towards the little bookshelf where I kept cookery and devotional books, the most comfortable bedside reading..

Once outside the magic circle the writers became their lonely selves, pondering on poems, observing their fellow men ruthlessly, putting people they ….