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

Writing is not primarily escape, but use.

The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.

One doesn't defend one's god: one's god is in himself a defense.

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

...and the great advantage of being a literary woman, was that you could go everywhere and do everything.

What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?