Chamber music -- a conversation between friends.

Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes and always count their change when it is handed to them.

Will the reader turn the page?

I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little more, as I grown older.

If art has a purpose, it is to interpret life, reproduce it in fresh visions.

For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.