if you go through life looking for insults, you may be comfortably assured of finding them..

You may be able to write a novel, you may not. You will never know until you have worked very hard indeed and written at least part of it. You will n….

Expectation is the springboard of achievement..

No coffee is ever quite as good as it smells..

As usual she had a deceptive air of perspicacity..

Above all things-read. Read the great stylists who cannot be copied rather than the successful writers who must not be copied..

You must be able to write. You must have a sense of form, of pattern, of design. You must have a respect for and a mastery over words..

Why do you want to become an author? I will accept only one answer. If it is because you feel you can write better than you can do anything else then….

We do not wait for inspiration. We work because we've jolly well got to. But when all is said and done, we toil at this particular job because it's t….

It is a curious thing that when one speaks from the heart it is invariably in the worst of taste..

No art should be fashionable..

Custom makes monsters of us all..

One should have the courage of one's loneliness..