1. “The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the the intrusion of foreign matter.”
2. “A child’s attitude toward everything is an artist’s attitude.”
3. “Life began for me, when I ceased to admire and began to remember.”
4. “People always think the bread of another country is better than their own.”
5. “I tell you there is such a thing as creative hate.”
6. “The land belongs to the future.”
7. “Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.”
8. “Some things are best learned in calm, others in storm.”
9. “Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin.”
10. “In this world people have to pay an extortionate price for any exceptional gift whatever.”
11. “The irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand.”
12. “New things are always ugly.”
13. “Freedom so often means that one isn’t needed anywhere.”
14. “No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.”
15. “Even the wicked get the worse than they deserve.”
16. “Personal life becomes paler as the imaginative life becomes richer.”
17. “When the eyes of the flesh are shut, the eyes of the spirit are open.”
18. “It takes a great deal of experience to become natural.”
19. “Success is never so interesting as struggle.”
20. “The sincerity of feeling that is possible between a writer and a reader is one of the finest things I know.”
21. “Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky.”
22. “Where there is great love there are always miracles.”
23. “People can be lovers and enemies at the same time, you know.”
24. “I wondered if the life that was right for one was ever right for two!”
25. “Money is a protection, a cloak; it can buy one quiet, and some sort of dignity.”
26. “People have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this world. It is always easier to lose than to find.”
27. “Too much information is rather deadening.”
28. “A creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies.”
29. “Hunger is a powerful incentive to introspection.”
30. “No nation has ever produced great art that has not made a high art of cookery, because art appeals primarily to the senses.”
