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

youth, when it is hurt, likes to feel itself betrayed.

The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter.

In New Mexico, he always awoke a young man, not until he arose and began to shave did he realize that he was growing older. His first consciousness was a sense of the light dry wind blowing in through the windows, with the fragrance of hot sun and sage-brush and sweet clover; a wind that made one's body feel light and one's heart cry 'To-day, to-day,' like a child's.

On the farm the weather was the great fact, and men's affairs went on underneath it, as the streams creep under the ice.

I don't want anyone reading my writing to think about style. I just want them to be in the story.

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.