Enid Bagnold

“Who wants to become a writer? And why? ... It's the streaming reason for living. To note, to pin down, to build up, to create, to be astonished at nothing, to cherish the oddities, to let nothing go down the drain, to make something, to make a great flower of life, even if it's a cactus.”

“I don't like people," said Velvet. "... I only like horses.”

“If I had my life over again[, ] I'd have thought more about words. And thought about them earlier.”