To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.

Im merely a dreamer, and then a writer, and my happiest moments are when I'm a reader.

Time broadens the scope of verses and I know of some which, like music, are everything for all men.

I think it's all to the good that a writer shouldn't be too famous. Because, in a country where a writer may be famous, he may be pandering to the mob, celebrity and so on.

Reality is not always probable, or likely. But if you're writing a story, you have to make it as plausible as you can, because if not, the reader's imagination will reject it.

A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been given to us for a purpose, and an artist must feel this more intensely. All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.

Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.