"One can play comedy, two are required..." - Quote by Elbert Hubbard

“Postponement: The father of failure.”

“It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.”

“Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized their energies around a goal.”

“Rude poets of the tavern hearth,squandering your unquoted mirth,which keeps the ground, and never soars,while jake retorts, and reuben roars;tough and screaming, as birch-bark,goes like bullet to its mark;while the solid curse and jeernever balk the waiting ear.”

“We have to hear the stories of women at all ages of their lives in order to really present a picture of what it felt like to be alive in our time. That's what our job is as writers is to present that and create it. Our job as writers isn't to make as much money as we can. Our job is to create a record of this time. That's why if you leave out women and the stories of women, we failed at our mission. All of us. Men and women.”

“Marley was dead: to begin with.”

“Drama usually has some sort of intense conflict.”

“There is a fine line I have to walk throughout the writing process in a novel. It is this line between drama and melodrama, and it is this line between evoking genuine emotional power and being manipulative.”

“The only link between Literature and the Drama left to us in England at the present moment is the bill of the play.”