Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
No author can create a character out of nothing. He must have a model to give him a starting point; but then his imagination goes to work, he builds him up, adding a trait here, a trait there, which his model did not possess.
Writing is the supreme solace.
You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
People who ask for your criticism want only praise.
A woman may be as wicked as she likes, but if she isn't pretty it won't do her much good.