Most publishers, like most writers, are ruined by their successes.

Look at my papa here; he's been dead all these years, and yet he is more real to me than almost anybody else. He never goes out of my life. I talk to him and consult him all the time. The older I grow, the better I know him and the more I understand him.

If you don't keep and guard and mature your force, and above all, have time and quiet to perfect your work, you will be writing things not much better than you did five years ago.

The heart, when it is too much alive, aches for that brown earth, and ecstasy has no fear of death.

People have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this world. It is always easier to lose than to find.

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

The sky was a midnight-blue, like warm, deep, blue water, and the moon seemed to lie on it like a water-lily, floating forward with an invisible current.