On the subject of dress almost no one, for one or another reason, feels truly indifferent: if their own clothes do not concern them, somebody else's do.

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

Art, at any rate in a novel, must be indissolubly linked with craft.

I pity people who do not care for Society. They are poorer for the oblation they do not make.

I think the main thing, don't you, is to keep the show on the road.

The story must spring from an impression or perception pressing enough to have made the writer write. It should magnetize the imagination and give pleasure.

Also, perhaps children are sterner than grown-up people in their refusal to suffer, in their refusal, even, to feel at all.