Occupation: Novelist Birth: December 17, 1873 Death: June 26, 1939
The first thing you have to consider when writing a novel is your story, and then your story - and then your story!.
We are all so afraid, we are all so alone, we all so need from the outside the assurance of our own worthiness to exist. So, for a time, if such a pa….
Mind, I am not preaching anything contrary to accepted morality. I am not advocating free love in this or any other case. Society must go on, I suppo….
[W]e are almost always in one place with our minds somewhere quite other..
Damn it all, it's the first duty of a soldier - it's the first duty of all Englishmen - to be able to tell a good lie in answer to a charge..
The war had made a man of him! It had coarsened him and hardened him. There was no other way to look at it. It had made him reach a point at which he….
We are all so afraid, we are all so alone, we all so need from the outside the assurance of our own worthiness to exist..
It is not merely that people must die and people must suffer, if not here, then there. But what is dreadful is that the world goes on and people go o….
Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you..
Higher than the beasts, lower than the angels, stuck in our idiot Eden..
Pride and reserve are not the only things in life; perhaps they are not even the best things. But if they happen to be your particular virtues you wi….
Why can't people have what they want? The things were all there to content everybody; yet everybody has the wrong thing..
What the artist wishes to do — as far as you are concerned — is to take you out of yourself. As far as he is concerned, he wishes to express himself..
If you're going to have a character appear in a story long enough to sell a newspaper, he'd better be real enough that you can smell his breath..
Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst..
But responsibility hardens the heart. It must..
New York is large, glamorous, easy-going, kindly and incurious, but above all it is a crucible - because it is large enough to be incurious..
There is no man who loves a woman that does not desire to come to her for the renewal of his courage, for the cutting asunder of his difficulties. An….
The instances of honesty that one comes across in this world are just as amazing as the instances of dishonesty. After forty-five years of mixing wit….
The world is full of places to which I want to return.
For the judging of contemporary literature the only test is one's personal taste. If you much like a new book, you must call it literature even thoug….