A good rule of angling philosophy is not to interfere with any fishermans ways of being happy, unless you want to be hated.

I love my work but do not know how I write it.

This motion-picture muddle had distracted me from my writing.

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

Where I was raised a woman's word was law. I ain't quite outgrowed that yet.

I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.

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