It is a pretty trick of authors to make nature ever in sympathy with man, but as a matter of fact she seldom is.

Here is a simple recipe to begin with. Get up every morning with the set intention of writing and go to your desk and sit there for three hours, whether you accomplish anything or not. Before long you will find that you are writing madly, not waiting for inspiration.

There is nothing so carking as the pangs of unsatisfied curiosity.

power, after it has ceased from troubling, is the dominant passion in human nature.

If you can't get the very best in this world, take nothing.

The only real rival of love is Art, for that in itself is a deep personal passion, its function an act of creation, fed by some mysterious perversion of sex, and demanding all the imagination's activities.

The Southerners are the only cooks in the United States. The real difference between the South and the North is that one enjoys itself getting dyspepsia and the other does not.