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Colonial America had looked upon (lawyers) as mere tradesmen who earned a questionable living by cleverness and chicanery.

What the writer needs is an empty day ahead.

What pioneer ever had chart and a lighthouse to steer by?

A woman's biography - with about eight famous historical exceptions - so often turns out to be the story of a man and the woman who helped his career.

Will the reader turn the page?

Biographers, by their very nature, want to know everything about everybody, dead or alive.

Writing is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living.

I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little more, as I grown older.

History is, in its essence, exciting; to present it as dull is, to my mind, stark and unforgivable misrepresentation.

There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual.

If art has a purpose, it is to interpret life, reproduce it in fresh visions.

Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

Artists often think they are going to die before their time. They seem to possess a heightened sense of the passing of the hours.

For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.