Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling.

You lose in the end unless you know how the wheel is fixed or can fix it yourself.

Opinion! If every one had so little tact as to give their true opinion when it was asked this would be a miserable world.

I think in order to write really well and convincingly, one must be somewhat poisoned by emotion, dislike, displeasure, resentment, fault-finding, imagination, passionate remonstrance, a sense of injustice-they all make fine fuel.

Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.

There are only two kinds of people in the world that really count. One kind's wheat and the other kind's emeralds.

Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth. Writing may be interesting, absorbing, exhilarating, racking, relieving. But amusing? Never!