Cleverness Is A Disease.

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 In The Mind.

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.

I Loved Mr. Darcy Far More Than Any Of My Own Husbands.

To Me And My Kind Life Itself Is A Story And We Have To Tell It In Stories - That Is The Way It Falls.

The Best Would Be To Have Friends Who Came And Went Away; But If I Had To Choose Between Their Never Coming Or Never Going Away, I Think I Would Choose That They Do Not Come.