There are two kinds of spiritual law, two kinds of conscience, one in man and another, altogether different, in woman. They do not understand each other; but in practical life the woman is judged by man's law, as though she were not a woman but a man.
Writing has been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.
There is nothing so enervating and exhausting as this hopeless waiting. I dare say this is only a transition period. I will and shall have a victory some day. If the powers that be have shown me so little favor as to place me in this world and make me what I am, the result must be accordingly.
Most critical fault-finding, when reduced to its essentials, simply amounts to reproach of the author because he is himself: thinks, feels, sees, and creates, as himself, instead of seeing and creating in the way the critic would have done.
The Minority is always right.
If only I could master that demon of procrastination that goes about like a roaring lion and devours all my good intentions, I should become the most punctual man in the world.
The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
The costliness of keeping friends does not lie in what one does for them, but in what one, out of consideration for them, refrains from doing.
Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.
If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.