The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.

The author, in his work, must be like God in the Universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.

To see one's name in print! Some people commit a crime for no other reason.

Each dream finds at last its form; there is a drink for every thirst, and love for every heart. And there is no better way to spend your life than in the unceasing preoccupation of an idea--of an ideal.

Talent is a long patience, and originality an effort of will and intense observation.

[The artist] is like a pump; he has inside him a great pipe that reaches down into the entrails of things, the deepest layers. He sucks up what was lying there below, dim and unnoticed, and brings it in great jets to the sunlight.