“We're all bit of relaxation away from being Gods and Goddesses.”
“It's a bit disconcerting being treated like Madonna.”
“Isn't the writing of good prose an emotional excitement?""Yes, of course it is. At least, when you get the thing dead right and know it's dead right, there's no excitement like it. It's marvelous. It makes you feel like God on the Seventh Day – for a bit, anyhow.”
“One day, I shall explode like an artillery shell and all my bits will be found on the writing table.”
“My writing has gone to bits - like my character. I am simply a self-conscious nerve in pain.”