If a man, sitting all alone, cannot dream strange things, and make them look like truth, he need never try to write romances.

It is a good lesson - though it may often be a hard one - for a man who has dreamed of literary fame, and of making for himself a rank among the world's dignit…

The moment when a man's head drops off is seldom or never, I am inclined to think, precisely the most agreeable of his life. Nevertheless, like the greater par…

It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care litt…

This story is slightly immoral, but so, I guess, are stories based on truth.

Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.

The stories are not autobiographical, but they're personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I've learned. Probably some things through observat…