26 quotes found
“I don't believe it pays to be a great author.”
“Getting an education is an awfully wearing process!”
“It's much more entertaining to live books than to write them.”
“Eleven pages this is a letter! Have courage. I'm going to stop.”
“Eleven pages— this is a letter! Have courage. I'm going to stop.”
“This is your heart. Keep it locked until the chap turns up who has the key.”
“The world is so full of a number of things, I am sure we should all be as happy as kings. The world is full of happiness, and plenty to go round, if you are only willing to take the kind that comes...”
“I'm going to enjoy every second, and I'm going to know I'm enjoying it while I'm enjoying it. Most people don't live; they just race. They are trying to reach some goal far away on the horizon, and...”
“... in spite of being happier than I ever dreamed I could be, I'm also soberer. The fear that something may happen to you rests like a shadow on my heart. Always before I could be frivolous and car...”
“The mere idea that you are not in a place for the rest of your life gives you an awfully unstable feeling. That's why trial marriages would never work. You've got to feel you're in a thing irrevoca...”
“I think that the most necessary quality for any person to have is imagination. It makes people able to put themselves in other people's places. It makes them kind and sympathetic and understanding.”
“Isn't it fun to work or don't you ever do it? It's especially fun when your kind of work is the thing you'd rather do more than anything else in the world. I've been writing as fast as my pen would...”
“This new book is going to get itself finished and published! You see if it doesn't.”
“But what's the use of arguing with a man? You belong, Mr. Smith, to a sex devoid of a sense of logic. To bring a man into line, there are just two methods: one must either coax or be disagreeable. ...”
“She was worshiping under the blue sky, to the jubilant chanting of the birds.”
“You must remember that you cannot form your character in a moment, my dear. Character is a plant of slow growth and the seeds must be planted early.”
“I've discovered the true secret of happiness, Daddy, and that is to live in the now. Not to be ever regretting past, or anticipating the future; but to get the most that you can out of this very in...”
“You know, Daddy, I think that the most necessary quality for any person to have imagination. It makes people able to put themselves in other people's places. It make them kind and sympathetic and u...”
“I came up with a pen and tablet hoping to write an immortal short story, but I've been having a dreadful time with my heroine I CAN'T make her behave as I want her to behave; so I've abandoned her ...”
“I saw a street car conductor today with one brown eye and one blue. Wouldn't he make a nice villain for a detective story?”
“Is it snowing where you are? All the world that I see from my tower is draped in white and the flakes are coming down as big as pop-corns. It's late afternoon - the sun is just setting (a cold yell...”
