Every once in a while I feel the tremendous force of the novel. But it does not stay with me.

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

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

I did not have one bad spell during writing - an unprecedented record.

I see so much more than I used to see. The effect has been to depress and sadden and hurt me terribly.

There was never an angler who lived but that there was a fish capable of taking the conceit out of him.

Adam Larey gazed with hard and wondering eyes down the silent current of the red river upon which he meant to drift away into the desert