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.

Wherever humanity has made that hardest of all starts and lifted itself out of mere brutality is a sacred spot.

I have not much faith in women in fiction.... Women are so horribly subjective and they have such scorn for the healthy commonplace. When a woman writes a story of adventure, a stout sea tale, a manly battle yarn, anything without wine, women, and love, then I will begin to hope for something great from them, not before.

Only a Woman, divine, could know all that a woman can suffer.

Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.

It's all very well to tell us to forgive our enemies; our enemies can never hurt us very much. But oh, what about forgiving our friends?

No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.