I don't want anyone reading my writing to think about style. I just want them to be in the story.

Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.

Old men are like that, you know. It makes them feel important to think they're in love with somebody.

No one person knows much more about writing than another. I expect that when people think they know anything about it, then their case is hopeless.

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. I feel as if this tree knows everything I ever think of when I sit here. When I come back to it, I never have to remind it of anything; I begin just where I left off.

Oh, this is the joy of the rose;That it blows,And goes.