The end of a novel, like the end of a children's dinner-party, must be made up of sweetmeats and sugar-plums.

Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.

Before the reader is introduced to the modest country medical practitioner who is to be the chief personage of the following tale, it will be well that he shou…

There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.

'I have this thing for generating character-oriented plots, where you look at a character and say 'What's the worst thing I could do to this guy?' I've found t…

The solution, once revealed, must seem to have been inevitable. At least half of all the mystery novels published violate this law.

Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairy-tale artist, you have to get your knowledge of life from somewhere. You have to know the material you're writ…