“A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.”

“A writer's style reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacites, his bias...it is the Self escaping into the open.”

“A book is not only a friend, it makes friends for you. When you have possessed a book with mind and spirit, you are enriched. But when you pass it on you are enriched threefold. ”

“The moral duty of the free writer is to begin his work at home: to be a critic of his own community, his own country, his own government, his own culture. The more freedom the writer possesses, the greater the moral obligation to play the role of critic.”

“When the Holy Spirit does his work of regeneration in the hearts of men he does not come on them with great powerful feelings and emotions which cannot be resisted. He does not possess men as evil spirits take possession of their victims.”

“...to know an other's interior life you are his confessor or a writer - the one is admitted freely, the other intrudes by discerning of spirits ”