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Try to be someone upon whom nothing is lost!

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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.

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There are two kinds of taste in the appreciation of imaginative literature: the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recogniti...more

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The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.

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She’s the latest freshest fruit of our great American evolution. She’s the self-made girl!(…)Well, to begin with, the self-made girl’s a new feature. ...more

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What we often take to be the new is simply the old under some novel form.

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Before he went away, he had heard all about the self-made girl, and there was something in the picture that strongly impressed him. She was possible d...more

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Art lives upon discussion, upon experiment, upon curiosity, upon variety of attempt, upon the exchange of views and the comparison of standpoints.

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She took refuge on the firm ground of fiction, through which indeed there curled the blue river of truth.