Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.
If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.
Living the past is a dull and lonely business looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.
That just goes to show, remarked Pearlie, that you must never judge a woman in a kimono or a bathing suit.
Roast beef, medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy.
Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.
The leading lady had a large and saving sense of humor. But there is nothing that blunts the sense of humor more quickly than a few months of one-night stands. Even O. Henry could have seen nothing fu...
Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling.
Then there were long, lazy summer afternoons when there was nothing to do but read. And dream. And watch the town go by to supper. I think that is why our great men and women so often have sprung from...
I am not belittling the brave pioneer men but the sunbonnet as well as the sombrero has helped to settle this glorious land of ours.
But always, to her, red and green cabbages were to be jade and burgundy, chrysoprase and prophyry. Life has no weapons against a woman like that.
Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth. Writing may be inter...
Living in the past is a dull and lonely business looking back strains the neck muscles causes you to bump into people not going your way.
People in big empty places are likely to behave very much as the gods did on Olympus.
Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.
Life cannot defeat a writer who is in love with writing - for life itself is a writer's love until death.
I think that in order to write really well and convincingly, one must be somewhat poisoned by emotion. Dislike, displeasure, resentment, fault-finding, imagination, passionate remonstrance, a sense of...