... though not invariably the worst choice, war is always an obscene horror.
It is only in the heart that anything really happens.
to be honest and yet popular is almost as difficult in literature as it is in life.
Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting.
I would write of the universal, not the provincial, in human nature.... I would write of characters, not of characteristics.
What a man marries for's hard to tell ... an' what a woman marries for's past findin' out.