Refecting on the high divorce rate in America as contrasted with England "American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers

Writing is the supreme solace.

The ideas for stories that thronged my brain would not let me rest till I had got rid of them by writing them.

Imagination grows by exercise.

Sometimes the road was only a lane, with thick hawthorne hedges, and the green elms overhung it on either side so that when you looked up there was only a strip of blue sky between. And as you rode along in the warm, keen air you had a sensation that the world was standing still and life would last forever. Although you were pedaling with such energy you had a delicious feeling of laziness.

We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.

If a man hasn't what's necessary to make a woman love him, it's his fault, not hers.