It might be that women who have beennurses should not marry physicians. They have too much respect for physicians, are taughtto have too much respect

There is within every human being a deep well of thinking over which a heavy iron lid is kept clamped.

Realism, in so far as the word means reality to life, is always bad art.

...she thought that something unexpressed in herself came forth and became a part of an unexpressed something in them.

I have seldom written a story, long or short, that I did not have to write and rewrite. There are single stories of mine that have taken me ten or twelve years to get written.

Many people must live and die alone, even in Winesburg.

I think that those of us who are what are called intellectuals make a terrible mistake in overvaluing the yen we have for the arts, books, etc. There is a sweet, fine quality in life that has nothing to do with this, and more and more I find myself valuing myself with those people.