Cincinnati Quote by 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 would not…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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 and making…

— 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.…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Fannie Hurst

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

— Fannie Hurst