You do not create a style. You work, and develop yourself; your style is an emanation from your own being.

The nose is surely one of the most impressionable, if not positively erotic, of all our unruly members.

A story is like something you wind out of yourself. Like a spider, it is a web you weave, and you love your story like a child.

I think I've only spent about ten percent of my energies on writing. The other ninety percent went to keeping my head above water.

There are so many things that we are capable of, that we could be or do. The potentialities are so great that we never, any of us, are more than one-fourth fulfilled.

I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing.

I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always.