"The criminal clearly wasn't expecting to find me there. He looked back at me with an expression of sheer balaclava wr…"

"A writer who denies the need for structure in his work is like a squash player who claims his brilliance removes the …"

"Stories are the architects of the human mind."

"In the distinctly human sense of our existence, people are made of language."

"The writer doesn’t push story into us, he withholds information in order that we draw his story out of ourselves."

"On summer evenings, before bathtime, my dad used to pick me up by the ankles and swing me round and round! Then one a…"

"Failure in any given subject is the first qualification towards becoming a teacher."

"In general appearance the is an extremely large and powerful fellow, with a beautiful head and speaking countenance, …"

"Very few of the old s interfere with the duties of their assistants, but there be men who seem to think you have mere…"

"Three days at , and up anchor again; our next place of call being . Every one has heard of the , who tried to beat th…"