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

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.

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 pioneer ever had chart and a lighthouse to steer by?

Biographers, by their very nature, want to know everything about everybody, dead or alive.

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