“I'll write to you. A super-long letter, like in an old-fashioned novel”
“Those novels with old-fashioned heroes and heroines in them -- are ruinous!”
“Jesus, if it comes down to it, I'll even write you a f*cking letter!""I'll write you on both sides of the f*cking paper, Caro.”
“It [Ashfair House] was an old fashioned house—the sort of house in fact, as Strange expressed it, which a lady in a novel might like to be persecuted in.”
“Write," he said."I'll write to you as soon as I get there," answered Julian."No. Not to me. Write books. Not letters. Write them for me, for Penelope.”
“writing a long novel is like survival training. Physical strength is as necessary as artistic sensitivity.”