timeliness is an enemy to art.

timeliness is an enemy to art.

With writing ... you must keep in the habit. After a lapse it will take you not an hour, but a week, a month, maybe, to find your mood again - that mood in which things drop from heaven. There's no forcing it; you can't set your notions in front of you, and stare at them till they take shape; they have to come to you whether you ask them or not. ... And you have to be in the habit of that mood! Of inspiration!

November at its best - with a sort of delightful menace in the air.

A farm is like a very large and extended baby. It takes a great deal of time and very little mentality.

the breeze brought us a faint sound, as of a distant rat, a huge and mystic rat, gnawing, maybe, at the horizon!

a sarcastic expression, on a beast, is far more sinister than rage.