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

Personal life becomes paler as the imaginative life becomes richer.

The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity.

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

The qualities of a second-rate writer can easily be defined, but a first-rate writer can only be experienced. It is just the thing in him which escapes analysis that makes him first-rate.

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

Yes, and because we grow old we become more and more the stuff our forbears put into us. I can feel his savagery strengthen in me. We think we are so individual and so misunderstood when we are young; but the nature our strain of blood carries is inside there, waiting, like our skeleton.