The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself..

It's never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools..

She carried within herself a great fund of life, and her deepest enjoyment was to feel the continuity between the movement of her own heart and the a….

She had a certain way of looking at life which he took as a personal offense..

I recall this passage as the hour of its first fully coming over me that she was a beautiful liberal creature. I had seen her personality in glimpses….

No themes are so human as those that reflect for us, out of the confusion of life, the close connection of bliss and bale, of the things that help wi….

if you are going to be pushed you had better jump.

Of course you're always at liberty to judge the critic. Judge people as critics, however, and you'll condemn them all!.

He was there or was not there: not there if I didn't see him..

My sole wish is to frustrate as utterly as possible the post-mortem exploiter..

A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it..

I've always expected the worst, and it's always worse than I expected..

Everything about Florence seems to be colored with a mild violet, like diluted wine..

Kidd, turn off the light to spare my blushes..

Ideas are, in truth, force..

..her smile, which was her pretty feature, was never so pretty as when her sprightly phrase had a scratch lurking in it..

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended….

Writing is not primarily escape, but use..

Take the word for it of a man who has made his way inch by inch, and does not believe that we'll wake up to find our work done because we've lain all….

The "germ," wherever gathered, has ever been for me, "the germ of a story," and most of the stories strained to shape under my hand have sprung from ….

Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself..