I write to escape ... to escape poverty.

In that little party there was not one who would desert another; yet we were of different countries, different colours, different races, different religions--and one of us was of a different world.

I have ever been prone to seek adventure and to investigate and experiment where wiser men would have left well enough alone.

I have been successful probably because I have always realized that I knew nothing about writing and have merely tried to tell an interesting story entertainingly.

I could write stories just as rotten.

If I had followed my better judgment always, my life would have been a very dull one.

No fiction is worth reading except for entertainment. If it entertains and is clean, it is good literature, or its kind. If it forms the habit of reading, in people who might not read otherwise, it is the best literature.