When I'm working on a serious and solid book ... I read about a detective novel a day. It's the best legal dope in the world. It makes you feel good until the next morning you can work again. — Mary Lee Settle Copy Share Image
Having watched herself in the speckled mirror ... she was already shocked beyond surprise at what the flat hand of age could do. — Mary Lee Settle Copy Share
Anyone who has a choice and doesn't choose to write is a fool. The work is hard, the perks are few, the pay is… — Mary Lee Settle Copy Share
When I'm working on a serious and solid book ... I read about a detective novel a day. It's the best legal dope in… — Mary Lee Settle Copy Share
Somerset Maugham said that it took at least six human beings to make one fictional character. That is true of landscape as well, I… — Mary Lee Settle Copy Share
Recorded history is wrong. It’s wrong because the voiceless have no voice in it. — Mary Lee Settle Copy Share
[The inspiration that comes to authors of fiction] is not an act of intelligence. — Mary Lee Settle Copy Share
the first time you are reconciled to the terrible unfairness of disappointment, you are getting old. — Mary Lee Settle Copy Share
Don't people know that it's the hardest work in the world? Joseph Conrad said that he had loaded hundredweights of coal all day long… — Mary Lee Settle Copy Share
