“It is rather exciting to write by moonlight.”

“When I read a book, I put in all the imagination I can, so that it is almost like writing the book as well as reading it - or rather, it is like living it. It makes reading so much more exciting, but I don't suppose many people try to do it.”

“... for I know I shall be interrupted-- I shall want to be, really, because life is too exciting to sit still for long.”

“I write this sitting in the kitchen sink.”

“I only want to write. And there's no college for that except life.”

“I should rather like to tear these last pages out of the book. Shall I? No-a journal ought not to cheat.”

“It's odd how different a house feels when one is alone in it. It makes it easier to think rather private thoughts...”