All Quotes

Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement. ”

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything. ”

That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. ”

Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves. ”

Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening. ”

There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before. ”

The irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand. ”

Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer. ”

Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen. ”

To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies. ”