All my life I have said, "Whatever happens there will always be tables and chairs"--and what a mistake.

Wariness had driven away poetry; from hesitating to feel came the moment when you no longer could.

Writers do not find subjects; subjects find them.

nothing is more restful than conformity.

Jane Austen, much in advance of her day, was a mistress of the use of the dialogue. She used it as dialogue should be used-to advance the story; not only to show the characters, but to advance.

Characters should on the whole, be under rather than over articulate. What they intend to say should be more evident, more striking (because of its greater inner importance to the plot) than what they arrive at saying.

Young girls like the excess of any quality. Without knowing, they want to suffer, to suffer they must exaggerate; they like to have loud chords struck on them.