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 Age 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… — Mary Lee Settle Choices 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… — Mary Lee Settle Book 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… — Mary Lee Settle Change Copy Share Image
Recorded history is wrong. It’s wrong because the voiceless have no voice in it. — Mary Lee Settle History Copy Share Image
[The inspiration that comes to authors of fiction] is not an act of intelligence. — Mary Lee Settle Books Copy Share Image
the first time you are reconciled to the terrible unfairness of disappointment, you are getting old. — Mary Lee Settle Disappointment 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… — Mary Lee Settle Amsterdam Copy Share Image
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