I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes.

I can't help feeling wary when I hear anything said about the masses. First you take their faces from 'em by calling 'em the masses and then you accuse 'em of not having any faces.

Write as often as possible, not with the idea at once of getting into print, but as if you were learning an instrument.

I fancy that the Hell of Too Many People would occupy a respectable place in the hierarchy of infernal regions.

It is good fiction, so largely ignored now, that brings us so much closer to the real facts.

There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.

We cannot get grace from gadgets.