In art economy is always beauty.

Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.

Make him [the reader] think the evil, make him think it for himself, and you are released from weak specifications.

Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.

In a play, certainly, the subject is of more importance than in any other work of art. Infelicity, triviality, vagueness of subject, may be outweighed in a poem, a novel, or a picture, by charm of manner, by ingenuity of execution; but in a drama the subject is of the essence of the work-it is the work. If it is feeble, the work can have no force; if it is shapeless, the work must be amorphous.

Writing is not primarily escape, but use.

You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.