As one gets older being sad and miserable can become a bit of a habit. To counteract this, she suggests making a point of savoring such things as the….

I suppose the more you have to do, the more you learn to organize and concentrate-or else get fragmented into bits. I have learned to use my 'ten min….

It's only by being obstinate that anything is got, or done..

To me and my kind life itself is a story and we have to tell it in stories - that is the way it falls..

I don't know if I believe in God, but I know I believe in the devil. I have met him..

Wanting is the beginning of getting..

cleverness is a disease..

With everything that happens to you, with everyone you meet who is important to you, you either die a little or are born..

Every piece of writing starts from what I call a grit a sight or sound, a sentence or happening that does not pass away but quite inexplicably lodges….

I loved Mr. Darcy far more than any of my own husbands..

It is an anxious, sometimes a dangerous thing to be a doll. Dolls cannot choose; they can only be chosen; they cannot 'do'; they can only be done by..

Every time a child, any child, is born, it is new - and different; that is the wonder..

Of course one never knows in draft if it's going to turn out, even with my age and experience..

Memory is the only friend of grief..

In good company your thoughts run, in solitude your thought is still ... In talk your mind can be stretched, widened, exhilarated to heights, but it ….

If you love the wrong people it's still love, isn't it, no matter what kind of love..

Most grown people are like icebergs, three-tenths showing, seven-tenths submerged - that is why a collision with one of them is unexpectedly hurtful..

If books were Persian carpets, one would not look only at the outer side. because it is the stitch that makes a carpet wear, gives it its life and bl….

You must remember garden catalogues are as big liars as house-agents..

For a dyed-in-the-wool author nothing is as dead as a book once it is written. ... She is rather like a cat whose kittens have grown up..

To wake for the first time in a new place can be like another birth..