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

If art has a purpose, it is to interpret life, reproduce it in fresh visions.

Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind.

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

A woman's biography - with about eight famous historical exceptions - so often turns out to be the story of a man and the woman who helped his career.

Chamber music - a conversation between friends.

There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual.