Fiction stretches our sensibilities and our understanding, as mere information never can.

- Fay Weldon

The prophets of doom, in my experience, are generally ignored and usually right.

- Fay Weldon

Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.

- Fay Weldon

A 'weakness,' I now realize, is nothing but a strength not properly developed.

- Fay Weldon

Marriage is what happens when one at least of the partners doesn't want the other to get away.

- Fay Weldon

Never defend yourself; agree with your critics, it takes the wind out of their sails.

- Fay Weldon

People hear what they want and expect to hear, not what is said.

- Fay Weldon

Style is what's there when you look at someone's writing and you know that they wrote it and nobody else did.

- Fay Weldon

Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest.

- Fay Weldon