Some day some one will write a book about that frantic search of the creative worker for silence and freedom, not only… — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer's life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab. — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
Of one thing the reader can be certain: the more easily anything reads, the harder it has been to write. — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
[The writer] wants both to do the best possible work and also to reach the largest possible audience. The result is a… — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
Every writer knows the terror of an unexpected success. How to carry on? How to repeat it? — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
“[I]t is really the ponderous books which I envy. How easy merely to put down everything you think or imagine. No holding… — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
Every crucial experience can be regarded either as a setback, or the start of a wonderful new adventure, it depends on your perspective! — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
Men... look back on the children who were once themselves, and attempt to reconstruct them. But they can no longer think like the child... — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
there comes a time when ambition ceases to burn, or romance to stir, and the highest cry of the human heart is for peace. — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
To men and women who want to do things, there is nothing quite so driving as the force of an imprisoned ego. . .… — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
The stage on which we play our little dramas of life and love has for most of us but one setting. — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
I suppose there is something in all of us that harks back to the soil. When you come to think of it, what are… — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
“The old vicious cycle of empires threatened to repeat itself, the old story of the many led by the few. Always it had come,… — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
We are often miserable at our desk or typewriters, but not happy away from them. — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
Men love a joke - on the other fellow. But your really humorous woman loves a joke on herself. — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
War is a thing of fearful and curious anomalies ... It has shown that government by men only is not an appeal to reason,… — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
the calm of a place like Bellwood is the peace of death without the hope of resurrection. — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money. — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
“Oh, stop talking," I cried, in a hunted tone. "I can't bear it. If you are going to arrest me, get it over." "I'd… — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
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