I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.

She ordered a cup of tea, which proved excessively bad, and this gave her a sense that she was suffering in a romantic cause.

Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.

Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstiti…

The question we writers are asked most often, the favorite question, is: Why do you write? I write because I have an innate need to write. I write because I ca…

I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.

I laugh at it today, now that I have had all the good of it. Let the bridge blow up, provided I have got my troops across... Nonetheless, that book was a terri…