A Foreigner Is A Friend I Have

I Am Not Given To Superstition, Yet There Are Certain Places In Old Asian Countries Where Human Beings Have Been Born And Have Lived And Died For So Many Generations That The Very Earth Is Saturated With Their Flesh And The Air Seems Crowded With Their Continuing Presence.

Just About Everything Significant In My Life Happened After I Passed Forty. I Was A Housewife And Mother, But Yearned To Be A Writer. I Worked At My Writing Whenever I Could Snatch A Moment, And I Assembled Several Manuscripts. I Was Just About Forty When My First Novel, East Wind, West Wind, Was Published. Then A Few Months Later Came The Good Earth. My Career Was Launched At Last, And It Has Given Me The Richest Possible Satisfaction

All Things Are Possible Until They Are Proved Impossible - And Even The Impossible May Only Be So, As Of Now.

Iowans Know Themselves And What They Are Doing. They Are Doing Well.

Write A Novel If You Must, But Think Of Money As An Unlikely Accident. Get Your Reward Out Of Writing It, And Try To Be Content With That.