Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.

No nation has ever produced great art that has not made a high art of cookery, because art appeals primarily to the senses.

If [the writer] achieves anything noble, anything enduring, it must be by giving himself absolutely to his material. And this gift of sympathy is his great gift; is the fine thing in him that alone can make his work fine.

Let your fiction grow out of the land beneath your feet.

Love itself draws on a woman nearly all the bad luck in the world

Religion is different from everything else; because in religion seeking is finding.

A work-room should be like an old shoe; no matter how shabby, it's better than a new one.