A novelist's characters must be with him as he lies down to sleep, and as he wakes from his dreams. He must learn to hate them and to love them.

To feel that your hours are filled to overflowing, that you can barely steal minutes enough for sleep, that the welfare of many is entrusted to you, that the world looks on and approves, that some good is always being done to others -- above all things some good to your country; -- that is happiness.

Above all else, never think you're not good enough.

It's dogged as does it. It ain't thinking about it.

Life is so unlike theory.

There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.

Beware of creating tedium!