People do tell a writer things that they don't tell others. I don't know why, unless it is that having read one or two of his books they feel on peculiarly intimate terms with him; or it may be that they dramatize themselves and, seeing themselves as it were as characters in a novel, are ready to be as open with him as they imagine the characters of his invention are.

Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art. ~Waddington

Great writers create; writers of smaller gifts copy

It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.

The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.

The author always loads his dice, but he must never let the reader see that he has done so, and by the manipulation of his plot, he can engage the reader's attention so that he does not perceive the violence that has been done to him.

The humorist has a good eye for the humbug; he does not always recognize the saint.