The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution.

Criticism and rejection are not personal insults, but your artistic component will not know that. It will quiver and wince and run to cover, and you will have trouble in luring it out again to observe and weave tales and find words for all the thousand shades of feeling that go to make up a story.

The worst effect of party is its tendency to generate narrow, false, and illiberal prejudices, by teaching the adherents of one party to regard those that belong to an opposing party as unworthy of confidence.

By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting successfully at any moment.

Writing calls on unused muscles and involves solitude and immobility.

Fiction supplies the only philosophy that may readers know; it establishes their ethical, social, and material standards; it confirms them in their prejudices or opens their minds to a wider world.

The games of the ancient Greeks were, in their original institutions, religious solemnities.