The only way for writers to meet is to share a quick peek over a common lamp-post.

The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence.

It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.

No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, - something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.

All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.