Every artist makes herself born. You must bring the artist into the world yourself.

This land was an enigma. It was like a horse that no one knows how to break to harness, that runs wild and kicks things to pieces.

I tell you there is such a thing as creative hate.

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.

No nation has ever produced great art that has not made a high art of cookery, because art appeals primarily to the senses.

Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand - a business as safe and commendable as making soap or breakfast foods - or it should be an art, which is always a search for something for which there is no market demand, something new and untried, where the values are intrinsic and have nothing to do with standardized values.

What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.