The first thing I would say to young writers is, "Don't do it, unless you can't stand not to do it." And the second thing I would say is, "If you do ….

Life is a process of one goneness after another..

It's almost as if we're put here on earth to show how silly they aren't..

There is a tiger in my room,' said Frances. 'Did he bite you?' said Father. 'No,' said Frances. 'Did he scratch you?' said Mother. 'No,' said Frances….

And now it seems she's on my wavelength. That's all I need. My mind isn't much of a comfort to me but at least I thought it was private..

I'd always assumed I was the central character in my own story, but now it occured to me I might in fact be only a minor character in someone else's..

Time's arrow, we are told, is a one-way thing. . . Memory's arrow, like the needle of a compass too close to a lodestone, spins in all directions..

Sometimes there's nothing but Sundays for weeks on end. Why can't they move Sunday to the middle of the week so you could put it in the OUT tray on y….

There are situations in life to which the only satisfactory response is a physically violent one. If you don't make that response, you continually re….

A map is the dead body of where you've been. A map is the unborn baby of where you're going. There are no maps. Maps are pictures of what isn't..

A family is everybody all together..

Words have a life; without response they die..

Nothing to be done really about animals. Anything you do looks foolish. The answer isn't in us. It's almost as if were put here on earth to show how ….

Them as counts counts moren them as dont count.

I believe that most of us would like to be thought well of by horses..

When I write a book, I don't have a plan or an outline. The characters move the action, and the action develops the characters. When I write a book, ….

When you suffer an attack of nerves you're being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system?..

Me, what's that after all? An arbitrary limitation of being bounded by the people before and after and on either side. Where they leave off I begin, ….

Usually my starting point is something that I've seen. It might be a painting, it might be an object. But they always start from a definite sensory e….