There is something out of gear about graded schools and all that. Memory is developed at the expense of what in general we are pleased to call thought and character.

I've found that people who look at things as they are, and not as they wish them to be, are the ones who succeed.

A story should be managed so that it should suggest interesting things to the reader instead of the author's doing all the thinking for him, and setting it before him in black and white.

Satisfaction, even after one has dined well, is not so interesting and eager a feeling as hunger.

if you don't keep and guard and mature your force, and above all, have time and quiet to perfect your work, you will be writing things not much better than you did five years ago. ... you must write to the human heart, the great consciousness that all humanity goes to make up. Otherwise what might be strength in a writer is only crudeness, and what might be insight is only observation; sentimemnt falls to sentimentality - you can write about life, but never write life itself.

my friends plunged into a borderless sea of reminiscences and personal news.

There is something out of gear about graded schools and all that. Memory is developed at the expense of what in general we are pleased to call thought and character.