Fannie Hurst

The creative writer is usually captive to his next book.

— Fannie Hurst

Oh - oh, why is it that the members of a family feel privileged to treat one another with a cruelty they…

— 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,…

— Fannie Hurst

It would be a fallacy to deduce that the slow writer necessarily comes up with superior work. There seems to be scant…

— Fannie Hurst

Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.

— Fannie Hurst

we dig our graves with our teeth.

— Fannie Hurst

The literary wiseacres prognosticate in many languages, as they have throughout so many centuries, setting the stage for new hautmonde in letters…

— Fannie Hurst

A woman is not a whole woman without the experience of marriage. In the case of a bad marriage, you win if…

— 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…

— Fannie Hurst

Charm is an odorless perfume, which cannot be anchored in the chemists' test tube. It is a permeation, a radiation. It emanates…

— 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…

— Fannie Hurst

Luscious feet that listened to the soil and stole its secrets.

— Fannie Hurst

I'm not happy when I'm writing, but I'm more unhappy when I'm not.

— Fannie Hurst

Life owes me a living worth living. Yes, Eden regarded life as her debtor, she its relentless paymaster.

— Fannie Hurst

Some authors have what amounts to a metaphysical approach. They admit to inspiration. Sudden and unaccountable urgencies to writecatapult them out of…

— Fannie Hurst

There is no adequate definition for creative writing, any more than it is possible to describe pain or flavor or color.

— Fannie Hurst

The vast army of women seeking divorce are mainly after easy alimony from men they have ceased to love - surely one…

— Fannie Hurst

Some people think they are worth a lot of money just because they have it.

— Fannie Hurst

Few enjoy noisy overcrowded functions. But they are a gesture of goodwill on the part of host or hostess, and also on…

— Fannie Hurst

Sex is a discovery.

— Fannie Hurst

[Wishing her mother had named her Beulah:] At least you did not sit on your beulah.

— Fannie Hurst

Any work of art ... is great when it makes you feel that its creator has dipped into your very heart for…

— Fannie Hurst

Isn't success ridiculously easy, once it begins to succeed? ... after the strain and sweat and pushing until the very groins of…

— Fannie Hurst

Nervous hands as if the fingers were dripping from them like icicles.

— Fannie Hurst

The maimed bodies aren't the worst. That's the easy way to hate war. The safe way. I - hate it just as…

— Fannie Hurst