Dialogue should show the relationships among people.

... into the novel goes such taste as I have for rational behaviour and social portraiture. The short story, as I see it to be, allows for what is crazy about humanity: obstinacies, inordinate heroisms, "immortal longings.

...the power-loving temperament is more dangerous when it either prefers or is forced to operate in what is materially a void. Wehave everything to dread from the dispossessed.

Silences can be as different as sounds.

Though not all reading children grow up to be writers, I take it that most creative writers must in their day have been reading children.

Sins cut boldly up through every class in society, but mere misdemeanours show a certain level in life.

Style is the thing that's always a bit phony, and at the same time you cannot write without style.