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Old habits are...

Old habits are...

Old habits are strong and jealous.

Source: Becoming A Writer, 1934.
-- Dorothea...

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The next best...

The next best...

The next best thing to being clever is being able to quote someone who is.

Source:...

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The three indispensables...

The three indispensables...

The three indispensables of genius are understanding, feeling, and perseverance. The three things that enrich genius...

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When you're in...

When you're in...

When you're in love, you put up with things that, when you're out of love you cite.

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Most writers are...

Most writers are...

Most writers are not quick-witted when they talk. Novelists, in particular, drag themselves around in society like...

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One can never...

One can never...

One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.

Source: The...

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Deliver more than...

Deliver more than...

Deliver more than you are getting paid to do. The victory of success will be half won when you learn the secret of...

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If I feel...

If I feel...

If I feel depressed I will sing. If I feel sad I will laugh. If I feel ill I will double my labor. If I feel fear I...

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Fire and swords...

Fire and swords...

Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.

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Inquisitive people are...

Inquisitive people are...

Inquisitive people are merely funnels of conversation. They do not take anything for their own use, but merely to pass...

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Crude classifications and...

Crude classifications and...

Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life.

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The science [of...

The science [of...

The science [of economics] hangs like a gathering fog in a valley, a fog which begins nowhere and goes nowhere, an...

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The only true...

The only true...

The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one...

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The people who...

The people who...

The people who shape our lives and our cultures have the ability to communicate a vision or a quest or a joy or a...

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Think of ideas...

Think of ideas...

Think of ideas as a beat. To change a mind is to change the world.

Source: In Words...

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Advertising is the...

Advertising is the...

Advertising is the genie which is transforming America into a place of comfort, luxury and ease for...

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The difference between...

The difference between...

The difference between burlesque and the newspapers is that the former never pretended to be performing a public...

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There aren't any...

There aren't any...

There aren't any embarrassing questions -- only embarrassing answers.

Source: The...

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Actions are the...

Actions are the...

Actions are the seed of Fate
Deeds grow into Destiny.


Source: In Wisdom of the...

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A life spent...

A life spent...

A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as...

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