Occupation: Author Birth: September 22, 1931
Truly Alice, books are wonderful things; to sit alone in a room and laugh and cry, because you are reading, and still be safe when you close the book….
Style is what's there when you look at someone's writing and you know that they wrote it and nobody else did..
Never defend yourself; agree with your critics, it takes the wind out of their sails..
How has anyone ever understood anyone, except through love, which is wordless?.
A 'weakness,' I now realize, is nothing but a strength not properly developed..
A woman has all too much substance in a man's eyes at the best of times. That is why men like women to be slim. Her lack of flesh negates her. The le….
The prophets of doom, in my experience, are generally ignored and usually right..
I am not cynical. I am just old. I know what is going to happen next..
I was seduced by secrets, which are to true love as artificial sweetener is to sugar, calorie-free but in the long run carcinogenic, not the real thi….
I didn't even know I was a feminist until I read it on the back of one of my own books..
Preserve your peace of mind. There is not much time; all things end in death. Do not lament the past too much, or fear the future too acutely, ot was….
Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest..
Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away..
One must be careful with words. Words turn probabilities into facts and by sheer force of definition translate tendencies into habits..
So much for the fruits of love. Love? What's love? Sex, ah, that's another thing. Love has babies: sex has abortions..
Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens..
People hear what they want and expect to hear, not what is said..
If I am a prolific writer and turn my hand, with what seems to some as indecent haste, from novels to screenplays to stage and radio plays, it is bec….
Fiction stretches our sensibilities and our understanding, as mere information never can..
If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens..
Marriage is what happens when one at least of the partners doesn't want the other to get away..