“And hearing her breathe softly by his side, Wells understood that, as so often happened, his wife knew what he wanted so much better than he did, and that if only he had asked her, he could have sa...”

“...the wrath of God pales beside that of man.”

“[A] writers most powerful weapon, his true strength, was his intuition, and regardless of whether he had any talent, if the critics combined to discredit an authors nose for things, he would be red...”

“There is little more I can add short of dissecting the man, or going into intimate details such as the modest proportions and slight southeasterly curvature of his manhood.”

“Yes, he would look for her, whether to delight in the joys of spring together or to plunge into the abyss. He would look for her because he loved her. And somehow this would lessen the lie Claire w...”

“Why had his mother gone to the trouble of bringing him into the world if the most exciting moment in his life was having been made lame by a bayonet?”

“I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of the Imagination.”

“Nature: it might be the magical key to unlock a locked imagination.”

“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”

“Writing is a gift to both the writer and the reader.”

“Mind your words, dear writer for you are holding a delicate reader in them.”

“But a reader's ambition knows no bounds.”