“After being turned down by numerous publishers, he decided to write for posterity.”

“Whom are you?” said he, for he had been to night school.”

“Whom are you?" he asked, for he had attended business college.”

“In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of entertainment. ”

“A lot of smart young people have come out of Indiana. The smarter they are, the faster they come out”

“And why should any man who writes, even if he writes things immortal, nurse anger at the world's neglect? Who asked him to publish? Who promised him a hearing? Who has broken faith with him? Your poem, your novel, who bargained with you for it?”

“To be a writer, you must write. To be a published writer you must finish what you write and then get what you've written in front of the outside world.”