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> [Life owes me a living worth living. Yes, Eden regarded life as her debtor, she its relentless paymaster.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-hurst/life-owes-me-a-living-worth-living-yes-eden-regarded-life-as-her/)

[Fannie Hurst](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fannie-hurst/)

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## More by Fannie Hurst

> [The creative writer is usually captive to his next book.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-hurst/the-creative-writer-is-usually-captive-to-his-next-book/)

[Fannie Hurst](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fannie-hurst/)

> [Oh - oh, why is it that the members of a family feel privileged to treat one another with a cruelty they would not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-hurst/oh-oh-why-is-it-that-the-members-of-a-family-feel-privileged-to-treat/)

[Fannie Hurst](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fannie-hurst/)

> [Crushed to earth and rising again is an author's gymnastic. Once he fails to struggle to his feet and grab his pen, he will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-hurst/crushed-to-earth-and-rising-again-is-an-author-s-gymnastic-once-he/)

[Fannie Hurst](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fannie-hurst/)

> [It would be a fallacy to deduce that the slow writer necessarily comes up with superior work. There seems to be scant relationshipbetween prolificness…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-hurst/it-would-be-a-fallacy-to-deduce-that-the-slow-writer-necessarily/)

[Fannie Hurst](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fannie-hurst/)

> [Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-hurst/any-writer-worth-the-name-is-always-getting-into-one-thing-or-getting/)

[Fannie Hurst](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fannie-hurst/)

> [we dig our graves with our teeth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-hurst/we-dig-our-graves-with-our-teeth/)

[Fannie Hurst](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fannie-hurst/)

> [The literary wiseacres prognosticate in many languages, as they have throughout so many centuries, setting the stage for new hautmonde in letters and making…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-hurst/the-literary-wiseacres-prognosticate-in-many-languages-as-they-have/)

[Fannie Hurst](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fannie-hurst/)

> [A woman is not a whole woman without the experience of marriage. In the case of a bad marriage, you win if you lose.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-hurst/a-woman-is-not-a-whole-woman-without-the-experience-of-marriage-in/)

[Fannie Hurst](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fannie-hurst/)

> [The grand canyon which yawns between the writer's concept of what he wants to capture in words and what comes through is a cruel…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-hurst/the-grand-canyon-which-yawns-between-the-writer-s-concept-of-what-he/)

[Fannie Hurst](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fannie-hurst/)

> [Charm is an odorless perfume, which cannot be anchored in the chemists' test tube. It is a permeation, a radiation. It emanates from the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-hurst/charm-is-an-odorless-perfume-which-cannot-be-anchored-in-the-chemists/)

[Fannie Hurst](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fannie-hurst/)

> [writing is the loneliest job in the world. There's always that frustrating chasm to bridge between the concept and the writing of it. We're…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-hurst/writing-is-the-loneliest-job-in-the-world-there-s-always-that/)

[Fannie Hurst](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fannie-hurst/)

> [Luscious feet that listened to the soil and stole its secrets.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-hurst/luscious-feet-that-listened-to-the-soil-and-stole-its-secrets/)

[Fannie Hurst](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fannie-hurst/)

> [I'm not happy when I'm writing, but I'm more unhappy when I'm not.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-hurst/i-m-not-happy-when-i-m-writing-but-i-m-more-unhappy-when-i-m-not/)

[Fannie Hurst](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fannie-hurst/)

> [Life owes me a living worth living. Yes, Eden regarded life as her debtor, she its relentless paymaster.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-hurst/life-owes-me-a-living-worth-living-yes-eden-regarded-life-as-her/)

[Fannie Hurst](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fannie-hurst/)

> [Some authors have what amounts to a metaphysical approach. They admit to inspiration. Sudden and unaccountable urgencies to writecatapult them out of sleep and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-hurst/some-authors-have-what-amounts-to-a-metaphysical-approach-they-admit/)

[Fannie Hurst](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fannie-hurst/)

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