For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.

People who carry a musical soul about them are, I think, more receptive than others. They smile more readily. One feels in them a pleasant propensity toward the lesser sins, a pleasing readiness also to admit the possibility that on occasion they may be in the wrong--they may be mistaken.

Chamber music - a conversation between friends.

History is, in its essence, exciting; to present it as dull is, to my mind, stark and unforgivable misrepresentation.

Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, and always count their change when it is handed to them.

What the writer needs is an empty day ahead.

For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.