The writer is important only by dint of the territory he colonizes.

The writer is important only by dint of the territory he colonizes.

Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side.

No man should ever publish a book until he has first read it to a woman.

Those of our writers who have possessed a vivid personal talent have been paralyzed by a want of social background.

Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.

The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me, by newspapers and the Bible.