Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.

it is nice that nobody writes as they talk and that the printed language is different from the spoken otherwise you could not lose yourself in books and of course you do you completely do.

I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.

An audience is pleasant if you have it, it is flattering and flattering is agreeable always, but if you have an audience the being an audience is their business, they are the audience you are the writer, let each attend to their own business.

Remarks aren't literature.

A virgin a whole virgin is judged made and so between curves and outlines and real seasons and more out glasses and a perfectly unprecedented arrangement between old ladies and mild colds there is no satin wood shining.

The subject matter of art is life, life as it actually is; but the function of art is to make life better.