For what are we born if not to aid one another?

That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.

Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors.

To have come on all this new world of writing, with time to read in a city like Paris where there was a way of living well and working, no matter how poor you were, was like having a great treasure given to you.

Those who say they want to be writers, and aren’t writing, don’t.

How little we know of what there is to know.

In stating as fully as I could how things really were, it was often very difficult and I wrote awkwardly and the awkwardness is what they called my style. All mistakes and awkwardness are easy to see, and they called it style.