I do not think writers or anybody would sit down and think they must write about some cause, or theme, or something. If they write about their own experiences, something true is going to emerge.

You have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.

for real pleasure a pleasure resort should have no one in it but its legitimate inhabitants, oneself, and perhaps one's friends.

Is there any delight as great as the child's discovering ability?

The most exciting periods of literature have always been those when the critics were great.

I'll be pleased when I'm dead. That will let me off worrying about all these wars.

Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.