if you go through life looking for insults, you may be comfortably assured of finding them.

Above all things-read. Read the great stylists who cannot be copied rather than the successful writers who must not be copied.

As usual she had a deceptive air of perspicacity.

You must be able to write. You must have a sense of form, of pattern, of design. You must have a respect for and a mastery over words.

It is a curious thing that when one speaks from the heart it is invariably in the worst of taste.

No art should be fashionable.

Custom makes monsters of us all.