Nobody Really Lives In The Present.

The English, Although Partakers In The Most Variable And Quixotic Climate In The World, Never Become Used To Its Vagaries, But Comment Upon Them With Shock And Resentment As If All Their Lives Had Been Spent In The Predictable Monsoon.

I Get A Lot Of Letters From People. They Say "i Want To Be A Writer. What Should I Do?" I Tell Them To Stop Writing To Me And To Get On With It.

To Be A Classic, A Novel Should Be Original.

I Try, And I Think I Succeed, In Making My Readers Feel Sorry For My Psychopaths, Because I Do.

I Really Do Literally Put Myself Into A Character's Shoes.