In her single person she managed to produce the effect of a majority.

Cruelty is the only sin.

Knowledge, like experience, is valid in fiction only after it has dissolved and filtered down through the imagination into reality.

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

It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.

As far back as I remember, long before I could write, I had played at making stories. But not until I was seven or more, did I begin to pray every night, "O God, let me write books! Please, God, let me write books!"

Life has taught me that the greatest tragedy is not to die too soon but to live too long.