If a young aspirant had a modicum of skill and a busy typewriter she or he would sooner or later get a foothold in one of the magazines and a leaping start on the ladder upward.

It is difficult to be king when the gods are changing.

The arrogance of the artist is a very profound thing, and it fortifies you.

Writers turn dreams into print.

Many people who want to be writers don't really want to be writers. They want to have been writers. They wish they had a book in print.

I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.

If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.