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 terrible, and the product, when it's finally finished, is pure joy. — Mary Lee Settle Copy Share Image
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 on a ship in Amsterdam in the wintertime, and that is was nothing to the energy… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Recorded history is wrong. It’s wrong because the voiceless have no voice in it. — Mary Lee Settle Copy Share Image
[The inspiration that comes to authors of fiction] is not an act of intelligence. — Mary Lee Settle Copy Share Image
the first time you are reconciled to the terrible unfairness of disappointment, you are getting old. — Mary Lee Settle Copy Share Image
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 Image
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