It's a man's world, and you men can have it.

In the arts, you simply cannot secure your bread and your freedom of action too. You cannot be a hostile critic of society and expect society to feed you regularly.

I do not understand the world, but I watch it's progress.

I started out with nothing in the world but a kind of passion, a driving desire. I don't know where it came from, and I don't know why - or why I have been so stubborn about it that nothing could deflect me. But this thing between me and my writing is the strongest bond I have ever had - stronger than any bond or any engagement with any human being or with any other work I've ever done.

who wants to read about success? It is the early struggle which makes a good story.

It is such a relief to be told the truth.

First impressions are often signals from the deep that we should credit oftener than we do.