All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.
The victor belongs to the spoils.
The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.
You can stroke people with words.
Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.
All good writing is like swimming underwater and holding your breath.
Any person with any imagination is bound to be afraid.
There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind.
What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story.
Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.
The character is the plot, the plot is a character.
Whenever you feel like criticizing any one...just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.
Compromising with events time moves along.
My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.
Good luck to you and bad luck to your theories.
Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist but in the ability to start over.
Mother says that two souls are sometimes created together and--and in love before they're born.
In any case, you mustn't confuse a single failure with a final defeat.
Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses.
