Occupation: Journalist Birth: May 15, 1890 Death: September 18, 1980
We pity people too often for the wrong reasons..
Freedom is a dangerous intoxicant and very few people can tolerate it in any quantity..
If I didn't know the ending of a story, I wouldn't begin. I always write my last lines, my last paragraph first, and then I go back and work towards ….
The greatest art comes out of warmth and conviction and deep feeling, but then, very few people, even geniuses, have all that..
But my belief is growing that our political and social evils are remediable, if only all of us who want a change for the better just get up and work ….
Be bold, and try not to fall in love with your faults. Don't be so afraid of giving yourself away, either, for if yo write, you must. And if you can'….
I love to praise what I love, and I won't for a minute believe that love is blind -- indeed, it gives clearness without sharpness, and surely that is….
There have been many times when I have been so entirely sickened of life it was very hard to work to keep on, a half dozen times I have been tempted ….
It is such a relief to be told the truth..
I always knew one thing, that life is made bearable and possible and liveable by the relations of one human being to another, the individual love and….
The thing is not to follow a pattern. Follow your own pattern of feeling and thought. The thing is to accept your own life and not try to live someon….
There are only a few bits of absolute knowledge in the world, people can learn only one or two fundamental facts about each other, the rest is decora….
There is no such thing as an exact synonym and no such thing as an unmixed motive..
Don't you love being alive?" asked Miranda. "Don't you love weather and the colors at different times of the day, and all the sounds and noises like ….
we know that the Furies do not come uninvited..
I want to live in a world capital or the howling wilderness..
A story is like something you wind out of yourself. Like a spider, it is a web you weave, and you love your story like a child..
Untrained minds have always been a nuisance to the military police of orthodoxy. God-intoxicated mystics and untidy saints with only a white blaze of….
One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage of it..
I have a great deal of religious symbolism in my stories because I have a very deep sense of religion and also I have a religious training. And I sup….
And yet, we know how fatal the pursuit of liveliness may be: it may result in ... tiresome acrobatics. ... Flashy effects distract the mind. They des….