To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies.
Let your fiction grow out of the land beneath your feet.
I tell you there is such a thing as creative hate.
One may have staunch friends in one's own family, but one seldom has admirers.
The land belongs to the future.
Paris is a hard place to leave, even when it rains incessantly and one coughs continually from the dampness.