While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first personality, which no one should copy.

That is the mission of art - to make us pause and look at a thing a second time.

They are always asking a writer why he does not write like somebody else, or a painter why he does not paint like somebody else, quite oblivious of the fact that if either of them did anything of the kind he would cease to be an artist.

Most people live for love and admiration. But it is by love and admiration that we should live.

Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working.

I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much

Consistency is the hallmark of the unimaginative.