A surprising number of people - including many students of literature - will tell you they haven't really lived in a book since they were children.

Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.

Only write to me, write to me, I love to see the hop and skip and sudden starts of your ink.

Independent women must expect more of themselves, since neither men nor other more conventionally domesticated women will hope for anything, or expect any result other than utter failure.

I think there are a lot more important things than art in the world. But not to me.

Everything is surprising, rightly seen.

Funny way to spend your life, though, studying another chap's versifying.