I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.
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The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
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We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.
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Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book.
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It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence whether a man be behind it or no.
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The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when your arrows are spent.
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People do not deserve good writing, they are so pleased with bad.
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Books are for nothing but to inspire
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Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind.
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Imitation is suicide.
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Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
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The years teach us much, which the days never knew.
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Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend, the cold, obscure shelter where moult the wings which will bear it farther than ...
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The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when all your arrows are spent.
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He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets — most likely his fat...
