The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper — whether little or great, it belongs to Literature.


Letter to Willa Cather, quoted in the preface to The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories (1925)


The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper — whether little or great, it belongs to...

The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper — whether little or great, it belongs to...

The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper — whether little or great, it belongs to...

The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper — whether little or great, it belongs to...