The creative writer is usually captive to his next book.

Any work of art ... is great when it makes you feel that its creator has dipped into your very heart for his sensation.

Crushed to earth and rising again is an author's gymnastic. Once he fails to struggle to his feet and grab his pen, he will contemplate a fact he should never permit himself to face: that in all probability books have been written, are being written, will be written, better than anything he has done, is doing, or will do.

Family. A snug kind of word.

Art transcends war. Art is the language of God and war is the barking of men. Beethoven is bigger than war.

The literary wiseacres prognosticate in many languages, as they have throughout so many centuries, setting the stage for new hautmonde in letters and making up the public's mind.

There is no adequate definition for creative writing, any more than it is possible to describe pain or flavor or color.