It is a pretty trick of authors to make nature ever in sympathy with man, but as a matter of fact she… — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
Authors are far closer to the truths enfolded in mystery than ordinary people, because of that very audacity of imagination which irritates… — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
... books are too heterogeneous an interest to furnish a vital one in life, a reason for being alive. — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
It took me some time to learn that although every one secretly cherishes the ambition to be 'put in a book,' no… — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
I want books written out of a brain and heart and soul crowded and vital with Life, spelled with a big L.… — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
There is nothing so carking as the pangs of unsatisfied curiosity. — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
The only two good words that can be said for a hurricane are that it gives sufficient warning of its approach, and that it… — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
The world, and the great and free United States in particular, is full of narrow-minded, ignorant, moronic, bigoted, cowardly, self-righteous, anemic, pig-headed, stupid, puritanical,… — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
Men are not amusing during the shooting season; but, after all, my dear, men were not especially designed to amuse women. — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
genius must ever be imperfect. Life is not long enough nor slow enough for both brain and character to grow side by side to… — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
No country can reach a high stage of civilization without a leisure class. — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
