I agree with every word you write, and I can prove this in no better way than by taking your advice from beginning to end.

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.

I suppose I am a born novelist, for the things that I imagine are more vital and vivid to me than the things I remember.

A little later, when breakfast was over and I had not yet gone up-stairs to my room, I had my first interview with Doctor Brandon, the famous alienist who was in charge of the case....

Some women like to sit down with trouble as if it were knitting.

Women like to sit down with trouble – as if it were knitting

I haven’t much opinion of words. They’re apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that’s what I say.

Moderation has never yet engineered an explosion

As far back as I remember, long before I could write, I had played at making stories. But not until I was seven or more, did I begin to pray every night, “O God, let...

He felt with the force of a revelation that to throw up the clods of earth manfully is as beneficent as to revolutionize the world. It was not the matter of the work, but the...

The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.

No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not some day be antiquated…to seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only...

All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

The only natural human beings seem to be those who are making trouble.

No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book.

Nothing in life is so hard that you can’t make it easier by the way you take it.

It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.

Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance.

No idea is so antiquitated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not some day be antiquitated . . . to seize the flying thought before it escapes...

To teach one’s self is to be forced to learn twice.

I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years; and when recognition came at last, it was too late to alter events, or to make a difference in living.

He knows so little and knows it so fluently

I don’t know how race would have affected it,

Doesn’t all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?

There wouldn’t be half as much fun in the world if it weren’t for children and men, and there ain’t a mite of difference between them under the skins

No life is so hard that you can’t make it easier by the way you take it.

Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity.

All change is not growth; as all movement is not forward

No life is so hard that you cannot make it easier by the way you take it

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.

Women are one of the Almighty’s enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.