I write because I cannot NOT write. - Charlotte Bronte

"I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Don't flatter me."

"The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely."

"Writers cannot choose their own mood: with them it is not always hide-tide, nor --thank Heaven!--always Storm."

"I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward."

"Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves."