No day is without its innocent hope.
I have written chiefly because, though I have often dreaded the necessity, I have found it more painful, in the end, not to write.
It would appear, from the best examples, that the proper way of beginning a preface to one's work is with a humble apology for having written at all.
The truth is I've got the land on my back, an' it's drivin' me. Land is a hard driver.
And where was happiness if it sprung not from the soil? Where contentment if it dwelt not near to Nature?
Nothing, except the weather report or a general maxim of conduct, is so unsafe to rely upon as a theory of fiction.
to be honest and yet popular is almost as difficult in literature as it is in life.
Thus understanding and love, that is, the knowledge of and delight in the truth, are, as it were, the two arms of the soul, with which it embraces and comprehends with all the saints the length and breath, the height and depth, that is the eternity, the love, the goodness, and the wisdom of God.
I think homes should reflect the individuals and their individual taste rather than someone else's.
The art of utterance persuades initially by its music and its rhythm, before semiotic or personal characteristics come into play.
I was 36, and I had decided to quit acting because it was so disappointing.