"I've discovered the true secret of happiness, Daddy, and that is to live in the now. Not to be ever regretting past, or anticipating the future; but to get the most that you can out of this very insta..."
- Jean Webster
"You know, Daddy, I think that the most necessary quality for any person to have imagination. It makes people able to put themselves in other people's places. It make them kind and sympathetic and unde..."
"I don't believe it pays to be a great author."
"Isn't it fun to work— or don't you ever do it? It's especially fun when your kind of work is the thing you'd rather do more than anything else in the world. I've been writing as fast as my pen would g..."
"This new book is going to get itself finished— and published! You see if it doesn't."
"She was worshiping under the blue sky, to the jubilant chanting of the birds."
"Eleven pages— this is a letter! Have courage. I'm going to stop."
"I came up with a pen and tablet hoping to write an immortal short story, but I've been having a dreadful time with my heroine— I CAN'T make her behave as I want her to behave; so I've abandoned her fo..."
"I saw a street car conductor today with one brown eye and one blue. Wouldn't he make a nice villain for a detective story?"
"Is it snowing where you are? All the world that I see from my tower is draped in white and the flakes are coming down as big as pop-corns. It's late afternoon - the sun is just setting (a cold yellow ..."