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.

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

Artists often think they are going to die before their time. They seem to possess a heightened sense of the passing of the hours.

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.

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.

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.