If you know anything about James Whitcomb Riley, you know that Little Orphan Annie is one of the most fantastic characters who ever lived in America before Charlie Chaplin.

Dreiser... I love... and almost wouldn't speak to anyone who ever attacked him.

A lawyer I once knew told me of a strange case, a suffragette who had never married. After her death, he opened her trunk and discovered 50 wedding gowns.

At the age of 18 all young poets are sure they will be dead at 21 - of old age.

I never fantasized or invented a thing, not one thing. I knew every single thing I ever wrote about.

There were also some cruel reviews by women, but the tone of the male reviewers, sometimes hysterical, was different. I have suffered, but I don't want to name names but there have been men who have seemed to want to destroy me or my writing, men I don't even know.

I'm quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent.