A Novelist Is A Person Who Lives

Good Writing Is Supposed To Evoke Sensation In The Reader - Not The Fact That It Is Raining, But The Feeling Of Being Rained Upon.

I Try To Avoid Experience If I Can. Most Experience Is Bad.

I Am Often Asked The Question How Can The Masses Permit Themselves To Be Exploited By The Few. The Answer Is By Being Persuaded To Identify With Them.

We Make A Mistake To Condescend To The Past As If It Were Preparatory To Our Own Time.

And Though The Newspapers Called The Shooting The Crime Of The Century, Goldman Knew It Was Only 1906 And There Were Ninety-four Years To Go.