For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.

Nothing ought to be told, I think that does not interest or kindle one's own mind in looking back; it is the only condition on which one can hope to interest or kindle other minds.

I cannot hope that what I have to say will be very interesting to many.

A life spent largely among books, and in the exercise of a literary profession, has very obvious drawbacks, as a subject-matter, when one comes to write about it.

my credo is very short. Its first article is art - and its second is art - and its third is art!

It is the rank and file - the average woman - for whom the world has opened up so astonishingly.

Conviction is the conscience of the mind.