There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone.

Dialogue should convey a sense of spontaneity but eliminate the repetitiveness of real talk.

What I have found is, anything one keeps hidden should now and then be hidden somewhere else.

People in love, in whom every sense is open, cannot beat off the influence of a place.

Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.

No one of the characters in my novels has originated, so far as I know, in real life. If anything, the contrary was the case: persons playing a part in my life--the first twenty years of it--had about them something semi-fictitious.

Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.