The truth is I've got the land on my back, an' it's drivin' me. Land is a hard driver.

The share of the sympathetic publisher in the author's success - the true success so different from the ephemeral - is apt to be overlooked in these blatant days, so it is just as well that some of us should keep it in mind.

the great novels have marched with the years. They are the contemporaries of time.

To drink for pleasure may be a distraction, but to drink from misery is always a danger.

Preserve, within a wild sanctuary, an inaccessible valley of reverie.

He who demands little gets it.

for my own purpose, I defined the art of fiction as experience illuminated.