Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.

There was a day when I liked writing letters -- it has gone. Unfortunately the passion for getting them remains.

There is no room for the impurities of literature in an essay.

All artists need a room of their own

I am writing to a rhythm and not to a plot.

On or about December 1910, human character changed.

Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure