But if you had asked him what his work was, he would look candidly and openly at you with his large bright eyes through his gold pincenez, and would answer in a soft, velvety, lisping baritone: "My work is literature."

Love is a scandal of the personal sort.

Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.

[Six principles that make for a good story:] 1. Absence of lengthy verbiage of a political-social-economic nature; 2. total objectivity; 3. truthful descriptions of persons and objects; 4. extreme brevity; 5. audacity and originality: flee the stereotype; 6. compassion.

We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.

If you wish women to love you be original; I know a man who used to wear felt boots summer and winter & women fell in love with him.

Anyone who says the artist's field is all answers and no questions has never done any writing or had any dealings with imageryYou are confusing two concepts: answering the questions and formulating them correctly. Only the latter is required of an author.