(How much in your books comes from personal experience?) RHYS: If you experience a thing you know you can write it so much more, but life's one thing… - Wide Sargasso Sea

'Mein Lieb, Mon Cher, My Dear, Amigo,' the letter began (beginning of the story "Tigers Are Better-looking")

When you were nineteen, and it was the first time you had been let down, you did not make scenes. You felt as if your back was broken, as if you would never move again. But you did not make a scene. That started later on, when the same thing had happened five or six times over, and you were supposed to be getting used to it. (chapter 6)

I like emotion, I approve of it-in fact am capable of wallowing in it. (1946)