God created war so that Americans would learn geography.
I felt good and all washed clean of sin for the first time I had ever felt so in my life, and I knowed I could pray now. But I didn't do it straight off, but laid the paper down and set there thinking...
The face of the water, in time, became a wonderful book- a book that was a dead language to the uneducated passenger, but which told its mind to me without reserve, delivering its most cherished secre...
The dream vocabulary shaves meanings finer and closer than do the world's daytime dictionaries.
The test of any good fiction is that you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the bad to fail. The trouble with most fiction is that you want them all to land in hell togethe...
I must have a prodigious amount of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up!
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
Mary Jane she set at the head of the table, with Susan alongside of her, and said how bad the biscuits was, and how mean the preserves was, and how ornery and tough the fried chickens was—and all that...
We are chameleons and our partialities and prejudices change places with an easy and blessed facility.
Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have the man looked honest enough.
I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.
Cold! If the thermometer had been an inch longer we'd all have frozen to death.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.
Use what you stand for and what you oppose as a foundation to write great content that resonates with readers and creates a ripple effect.
Write without pay until somebody offers to pay.
That's the way with a cat, you know -- any cat; they don't give a damn for discipline. And they can't help it, they're made so. But it ain't really insubordination, when you come to look at it right a...
Perfect grammar--persistent, continuous, sustained--is the fourth dimension, so to speak: many have sought it, but none has found it.
The writing begins when you've finished. Only then do you know what you're trying to say.