They sicken of the calm who know the storm.

[On Edna Ferber's Ice Palace] ... the book, which is going to be a movie, has the plot and characters of a book which is going to be a movie.

She can sit up and beg, and she can give her paw — I don't say she will, but she can.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

There must be a magnificent disregard of your reader, for if he cannot follow you, there is nothing you can do about it.

But I give you my word, in the entire book there is nothing that cannot be said aloud in mixed company. And there is, also, nothing that makes you a bit the wiser. I wonder--oh, what will you think of me--if those two statements do not verge upon the synonymous.

Upton Sinclair is his own King Charles' head. He cannot keep himself out of his writings, try though he may; or, by this time, try though he doesn't.