Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.
The illness of a doctor is always worse than the illnesses of his patients.The patients only feel, but the doctor, as well as feeling, has a pretty good idea of the destructive effect of the disease on his constitution.This is a case in which knowledge brings death nearer.
The most beautiful words in the English language are 'not guilty'.
But I'm not to be caught with such poor bait! I'm a big fish, I am.
You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.