An artist's saddest secrets are those that have to do with his artistry.

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

Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement.

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.

Ugly accidents happen . . . always have and always will. But the failures are swept back into the pile and forgotten. They don`t leave any lasting scar in the world, and they don`t affect the future. The things that last are the good things. The people who forge ahead and do something, they really count.

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

Success is never so interesting as struggle