There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man's life to know them the little new that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave.

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to…

A serious writer is not to be confused with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bl…