Without self awareness we are as babies in the cradles.

There is no room for the impurities of literature in an essay.... the essay must be pure--pure like water or pure like wine, but pure from dullness, deadness, and deposits of extraneous matter.

Once she knows how to read there's only one thing you can teach her to believe in and that is herself.

My mind works in idleness. To do nothing is often my most profitable way.

Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can't use the wrong words.

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.