She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.

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

If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land.

If you have work to do, don't wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.

The advantage, the luxury, as well as the torment and responsibility of the novelist, is that there is no limit to what he may attempt as an executant - no limit to his possible experiments, efforts, discoveries, successes.

His kiss was like white lightning, a flash that spread, and spread again, and stayed.

You think too much.' 'I suppose I do; but I can’t help it, my mind is so terribly active. When I give myself, I give myself. I pay the penalty in my headaches, my famous headaches--a perfect circlet of pain! But I carry it as a queen carries her crown.