Writing is not primarily escape, but use.

In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives.

Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.

She had her own way of doing all that she did, and this is the simplest description of a character which, although by no means without liberal motions, rarely succeeded in giving an impression of suavity.

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

The "germ," wherever gathered, has ever been for me, "the germ of a story," and most of the stories strained to shape under my hand have sprung from a single small seed, a seed as remote and windblown as a casual hint.

Though it might have its momentary alarms, paternity is not an exciting vocation.