If I fished only to capture fish, my fishing trips would have ended long ago.

I confess that reading proofs is a pleasure. It stimulates and inspires me.

Writing was like digging coal. I sweat blood. The spell is on me.

Recipe For Greatness - To bear up under loss; To fight the bitterness of defeat and the weakness of grief; To be victor over anger; To smile when tears are close; To resist disease and evil men and base instincts; To hate hate and to love love; To go on when it would seen good to die; To look up with unquenchable faith in something ever more about to be. That is what any man can do, and be great.

Love of man for woman--love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself.

There are hours when I must force the novel out of my mind and be interested in the children.

No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.