A Good Novel Cannot Be

Experience Has Taught Me That The Only Cruelties People Condemn Are Those With Which They Do Not Happen To Be Familiar.

A Good Novel Cannot Be Too Long Or A Bad Novel Too Short.

What Depresses Me Is The Inevitable Way The Second Rate Forges Ahead And The Deserving Is Left Behind.

To Be Honest And Yet Popular Is Almost As Difficult In Literature As It Is In Life.

The Government's Like A Mule, It's Slow And It's Sure; It's Slow To Turn, And It's Sure To Turn The Way You Don't Want It.