Golden light Quote by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

“This, then, was hunger. This was what his mother had meant when she had said, "We'll all go hongry." He had laughed, for he…

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

You can't change a man, no-ways. By the time his mummy turns him loose and he takes up with some innocent woman and marries…

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Life is strong stuff, some of us can bear more of it than others.

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Who owns Cross Creek? The red-birds, I think, more than I, for they will have their nests even in the face of delinquent mortgages..It…

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

“You've seed how things goes in the world o' men. You've knowed men to be low-down and mean. You've seed ol' Death at his…

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

For myself, the Creek satisfies a thing that had gone hungry and unfed since childhood days. I am often lonely. Who is not? But…

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

“I do not understand how anyone can live without one small place of enchantment to turn to.”

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Writing is agony for me. I work at it eight hours every day, hoping to get six pages, but I am satisfied with three.

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

No man should have proprietary rights over land who does not use that land wisely and lovingly.

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

“Perhaps all men were moved against their will. A man ordered his life, and then an obscurity of circumstance sent him down a road…

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

the inferred is always more effective than the obvious.

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

“He wrote: Dear ollever; yor ol twinkk has dun gode up the rivver. im gladd. yor friend jody.”

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings