There ain't nothing more to write about and I'm rotten glad of it, because if I'd know'd what trouble it was to make a book, I wouldn't a tackled it.

So I became a newspaperman. I hated to do it but I couldnt find honest employment.

Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.

If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.

There is only one expert who is qualified to examine the souls and the life of a people and make a valuable report - the native novelist. ... And when a thousand able novels have been written, there you have the soul of the people; and not anywhere else can these be had.

Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

You may say organize, organize, organize; but there may be so much organization that it will interfere with the work to be done.