“Secrets with Laddie were the greatest joy in life. He was so big and so handsome. He was so much nicer than any one else in our family, or among our friends, that to share his secrets, run his errands,… — Gene Stratton-Porter Copy Share Image
“Jamie reflected that if he purposely went down to the crags of the Pacific and threw himself to the sharks, when he came before God and his father and mother, he could carry no smiling secret on his face. He… — Gene Stratton-Porter Copy Share Image
“Comstock, "but I left a wrong impression with you. I don't want” — Gene Stratton-Porter Copy Share Image
No one in the whole world knows all a man's bignesses and all his littlenesses as his wife does — Gene Stratton-Porter Copy Share Image
To my way of thinking and working, the greatest service a piece of fiction can do any reader is to force him to lay… — Gene Stratton-Porter Copy Share Image
In the economy of nature nothing is ever lost. I cannot belive that the soul of man shall prove the one exception — Gene Stratton-Porter Copy Share Image
“Elnora lifted the violin and began to play. She wore a school dress of green gingham, with the sleeves rolled to the elbows. She seemed a part of the setting all around her. Her head shone like a small dark sun, her face never had seemed so rose-flushed and fair. From the instant she drew the bow, her lips parted… — Gene Stratton-Porter Copy Share
“Young people," she said solemnly, "if your studying science and the elements has ever led you to feel that things just happen, kind of evolve by chance, as it were, this sight will be good for you. Maybe earth and air accumulate, but it takes the wisdom of the Almighty God to devise the wing of a moth. If there… — Gene Stratton-Porter Copy Share
the friend in need is the one who is the friend in deed; ... if people were not friends in need, there was every… — Gene Stratton-Porter Copy Share Image
There was an exquisitely beautiful conception in my brain when I did this piece of work all alone from midnight until morning after the… — Gene Stratton-Porter Copy Share Image
One feature about Los Angeles that I particularly love is the chance for association with all kinds of creative artists, a thing I never… — Gene Stratton-Porter Copy Share Image
I write as the birds sing, because I must, and usually from the same source of inspiration. — Gene Stratton-Porter Copy Share Image
How a big majority of book critics and authors have come to believe and to teach that no book is true to life unless… — Gene Stratton-Porter Copy Share Image
