If you have one strong idea, you can't help repeating it and embroidering it. Sometimes I think that authors should write one novel and then be put in a gas chamber. — John P. Marquand Copy Share Image
“Distrust the book which reads too easily because such writing appeals more to the senses than to the intellect. Hard reading exercises the mind.” — John P. Marquand Copy Share
“Some day you will know that there is a beauty of the soul that is more important than worldly beauty. Remember this when you… — John P. Marquand Copy Share
“The mood is on me to-night only becuase I have listened to several hours of intelligent conversation and I am not a very brilliant… — John P. Marquand Copy Share
“Yet whenever he thought of himself as a dull, deluded opportunist, compared with other people, he always remembered the intensity of his own feelings… — John P. Marquand Copy Share
“Most people in the world don't know who the Apleys are and they don't give a damn. I don't intend this as rudeness, but… — John P. Marquand Copy Share
In the mornings when they were in the city, they had breakfast on a card table in Jeffrey's study — John P. Marquand Copy Share
“There can be no compromise between wrong and right. Germany is wrong and the Allies are right. The devastations of Belgium and the atrocities… — John P. Marquand Copy Share
I hope that I am as broadminded as others, and you have always seen a decanter of wine on the table. — John P. Marquand Copy Share
“Nothing which is worth while is easy, nor in my experience is the actual doing of it particularly pleasant. The pleasure arises from completion… — John P. Marquand Copy Share
“Materialism has made you worship Mammon and in this material world everything comes too easily. Heat comes too easily and cold. Money comes too… — John P. Marquand Copy Share
If you have one strong idea, you can't help repeating it and embroidering it. Sometimes I think that authors should write one novel and… — John P. Marquand Copy Share
“You must learn to spend your money wisely...The main thing is not to have too much money to spend. This I have always found… — John P. Marquand Copy Share
“If George Apley failed to meet certain challenges, let us admit that we all have failed in some respects, and let us remember that… — John P. Marquand Copy Share
