In business sharp practice sometimes succeeds, but in art honesty is not only the best but the only policy.

People who ask for your criticism want only praise.

Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.

With the superciliousness of extreme youth, I put thirty-five as the utmost limit at which a man might fall in love without making a fool of himself.

The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.

It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.

No one can write a best seller by trying to. He must write with complete sincerity; the clichés that make you laugh, the hackneyed characters, the well-worn situations, the commonplace story that excites your derision, seem neither hackneyed, well worn nor commonplace to him. ... The conclusion is obvious: you cannot write anything that will convince unless you are yourself convinced. The best seller sells because he writes with his heart's blood.