She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.

The time-honored bread-sauce of the happy ending.

To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.

Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.

We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.

Don't pass it by - the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist's that it waits for.

The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.