“When you stop doing things for fun you might as well be dead.”

“This was a big storm and he might as well enjoy it. It was ruining everything, but you might as well enjoy it”

“When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.”

“I’m trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across—not to just depict life—or criticize it—but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me you actually experience the thing. You can’t do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful. Because if it is all beautiful you can’t believe in it. Things aren’t that way.”

“I had learned already never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.”

“You won't do our things with another girl, or say the same things, will you?”

“You know you’re writing well when you’re throwing good stuff into the wastebasket.”