“To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.”

“He did not care if she was heartless, vicious and vulgar, stupid and grasping, he loved her. He would rather have misery with one than happiness with the other.”

“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”

“It is one of the defects of my character that I cannot altogether dislike anyone who makes me laugh.”

“I have an idea that some men are born out of their due place. Accident has cast them amid strangers in their birthplace, and the leafy lanes they have known from childhood or the populous st...”

“When a woman loves you she's not satisfied until she possesses your soul. Because she's weak, she has a rage for domination, and nothing less will satisfy her.”

“The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.”