I should think I'm going to be a perpetual student.

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."

Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning.

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.

In short stories it is better to say not enough than to say too much, because, because--I don't know why.

Here I am with you & yet not for a single moment do I forget that there's an unfinished novel waiting for me.

Happiness does not await us all. One needn't be a prophet to say that there will be more grief and pain than serenity and money. That is why we must hang on to one another.