Vermont Is A Country Unto Itself.

For Our Democracy Has Been Marred By Imperialism, And It Has Been Enlightened Only By Individual And Sporadic Efforts At Freedom.

Be Born Anywhere, Little Embryo Novelist, But Do Not Be Born Under The Shadow Of A Great Creed, Not Under The Burden Of Original Sin, Not Under The Doom Of Salvation.

To Eat Bread Without Hope Is Still Slowly To Starve To Death.

The Person Who Tries To Live Alone Will Not Succeed As A Human Being. His Heart Withers If It Does Not Answer Another Heart. His Mind Shrinks Away If He Hears Only The Echoes Of His Own Thoughts And Finds No Other Inspiration.

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