Success is less interesting than struggle. There is great pleasure in the effort.

One may have staunch friends in one's own family, but one seldom has admirers.

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.

Your vivid, exciting companionship in the office must not be your audience, you must find your own quiet center of life, and write from that to the world.

Setting ... is accident. Either a building is part of a place, or it is not. Once that kinship is there, time will only make it stronger.

I first met Myra Henshawe when I was fifteen, but I had known her about ever since I could remember anything at all.

We all like people who do things, even if we only see their faces on cigar-box lids.