After all everybody, that is, everybody who writes is interested in living inside themselves in order to tell what is inside themselves. That is why writers have to have two countries, the one where they belong and the one in which they live really. The second one is romantic, is is separate from themselves, it is not real but it is really there.

If you write a half hour a day it makes a lot of writing year by year.

In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

One of the things that I discovered in lecturing was that gradually one ceased to hear what one said one heard what the audience hears one say.

Near a war is always not very near.

Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking.