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.

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

Ah! the terror and the delight of that moment when first we fear ourselves! Until then we have not lived.

Thirty or forty years ago, in one those grey towns along the Burlington railroad which are so much greyer to-day than they were then, there was a house well know from Omaha to Denver for its hospitality and for a certain charm of atmosphere.

The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own.

Yet the summer which was to change everything was coming nearer every day. When boys and girls are growing up, life can't stand still, not even in the quietest of country towns; and they have to grow up, whether they will or no. That is what their elders are always forgetting.

Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness.