“The expected has happened, and when the expected happens, it always causes me emotion.”

“The trouble with you and me, is that we don't live in the real world. We dream of fantastic things that may never happen.”

“What I feel is that if one has got to have a murder actually happening in one's house, one might as well enjoy it, if you know what I mean.”

“The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.”

“One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is to have a happy childhood.”

“fiction is founded on truth... unless things did happen, people couldn't think of them.”

“It was not until I was over twenty that I realised that my home standard had been unusually high and that actually I was quite as quick or quicker than the average. Inarticulate I shall always be. It is probably one of the causes that have made made me a writer.”