Good afternoon 3

I think it's a question which particularly arises over women writers:
whether it's better to have a happy life or a good support of tragic plots.

 Wendy Cope

Good afternoon 2

When I was excited about life, I didn’t want to write at all. And when I was happy, I had no wish to write.

I have never written about being happy, never. I didn’t want to. And I don’t think you can describe being happy.

Jean Rhys

Good afternoon 1

I am quite sure I’m not a great novelist because I have only got down to paper 3 people.

The person I think I am, the people who irritate me and the people I’d like to be.

When you get to really great people, like Tolstoy, you find they can get hold of all types.

E. M. Forster