Occupation: Journalist Birth: May 15, 1890 Death: September 18, 1980
Most people won't realise that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else..
I've been called a stylist until I really could tear my hair out. And I simply don't believe in style. The style is you..
I started out with nothing in the world but a kind of passion, a driving desire. I don't know where it came from, and I don't know why - or why I hav….
Eventually women will learn there's no such thing as freedom. Their husbands are just as fastened to the deck as they are. Men get onto a treadmill a….
The human heart is not yet so corroded that it can read off the extinction of these two men without a shock to the very roots of its belief in justic….
Now and again thousands of memories converge, harmonize, arrange themselves around a central idea in a coherent form, and I write a story..
Even St. Teresa said, "I can pray better when I'm comfortable," and she refused to wear her haircloth shirt or starve herself. I don't think living i….
Defeat in this world is no disgrace and that is what they cannot understand. If you really fought well and fought for the right thing..
Education must be taken out of the hands of rich illiterates, third rate politicians, and put where it belongs: in the care of scholars. At present t….
Art is a vocation, as much as anything in this world. For the real artist, it is the most natural thing in the world, not as necessary as air and wat….
Your mind outwears all sorts of things you may set your heart upon; you can enjoy it when all other things are taken away..
Writing, in any sense that matters, cannot be taught. It can only be learned by each separate one of us in his own way, by the use of his own powers ….
[On Gertrude Stein's Making of Americans:] I doubt if all the people who should read it will read it for a great while yet, for it is in such a limit….
We have this mistaken notion that everybody in the world has to go to college. The colleges are already crowded with people who never in this world w….
All working, practical political systems, even those professing to originate in moral grandeur, are based upon and operate by contempt of human life ….
I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting read….
Writing does not exclude the full life; it demands it..
Evil is dull, that is the worst of it..
It's a man's world, and you men can have it..
One little human truth is that opinionated people don't hold much with other people's opinions, and it is a great pleasure to some of them to be able….
You can't write about people out of textbooks, and you can't use jargon. You have to speak clearly and simply and purely in a language that a six-yea….