Novelists... fashioning nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence.

If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens.

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

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

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

I didn't even know I was a feminist until I read it on the back of one of my own books.

The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world.

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

Marriage is a very difficult relationship for nearly everyone and I'm sure you shouldn't do it if you want a quiet little easy life.

guilt to motherhood is like grapes to wine

She could see that to lose a sibling was hard: it could only seem unnatural:out of time, out of order, a vicious re-run of your own departure into nothingness.

In life there are heads and there are tails however when one starts to excrete thoughts out of the latter and proceed to relieve yourself out of the former than you've become too full of yourself.

It’s one of those laughs that light up her whole face, and you can’t help but join in because it’s just that infectious.

The earth keeps turning but it never says why.

Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.

I'm going to be working on my shot. Working on extending my range. Keep working on everything, and really studying the game.

There is no one way to render an idea. Let’s explore how masters of the sentence play with length and style to make their sentences distinctive.

A whispering and watery Norfolk sound Telling of all the moonlit reeds around.

One principal object of good-breeding is to suit our behaviour to the three several degrees of men, our superiors, our equals, and those below us.

If a work of art is to explore new environments, it is not to be regarded as a blueprint but rather as a form of action-painting.

Take your camera off automatic. You are the photographer.