I like a new clean book, freshly bound, particularly when I am the first to read it. I like dirty books - where other people have been before me, sli….

Ireland is a wonderful place to write in. Even although the atmosphere was so Faith-laden that I was often worried that I was not writing a book to t….

I only really love a book when I have read it at least four times..

In love' is for the romantic. 'Love' for the realist..

It is a city of villages, closely connected, each village dedicated to a different way of life..

There are people whom one loves immediately and forever. Even to know they are alive in the world with one is quite enough..

Everything begins in Paris..

I have never been able to wear a hat. My hair is peculiar in that it grows so fast that any hat I put on instantly leaps from my head..

Whenever I have tried to do anything For Money it has always led me astray..

Only a fool would make the bed every day..

The world of books: romantic, idle, shiftless world so beautiful, so cheap compared with living..