The Irregular And Intimate Quality Of Things

Let Your Fiction Grow Out Of The Land Beneath Your Feet.

Every Artist Knows That There Is No Such Thing As "freedom" In Art. The First Thing An Artist Does When He Begins A New Work Is To Lay Down The Barriers And Limitations; He Decides Upon A Certain Composition, A Certain Key, A Certain Relation Of Creatures Or Objects To Each Other. He Is Never Free, And The More Splendid His Imagination, The More Intense His Feeling, The Farther He Goes From General Truth And General Emotion.

It Is Easy To Pity When Once One's Vanity Has Been Tickled.

In This World People Have To Pay An Extortionate Price For Any Exceptional Gift Whatever.

Henry Colbert, The Miller, Always Breakfasted With His Wife--beyond That He Appeared Irregularly At The Family Table.