Once A Man Gets A Fixed Idea,

Isolation In Creative Work Is An Onerous Thing. Better To Have Negative Criticism Than Nothing At All.

In Descriptions Of Nature One Must Seize On Small Details, Grouping Them So That When The Reader Closes His Eyes He Gets A Picture. For Instance, You'll Have A Moonlit Night If You Write That On The Mill Dam A Piece Of Glass From A Broken Bottle Glittered Like A Bright Little Star, And That The Black Shadow Of A Dog Or A Wolf Rolled Past Like A Ball.

Faith Is A Capacity Of The Spirit. It Is Like Talent: You Have To Be Born With It

People Who Lead A Lonely Existence Always Have Something On Their Minds That They Are Eager To Talk About.

What Must Human Beings Be, To Destroy What They Can Never Create?