Mary Roberts Rinehart Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 12, 1876 - September 22, 1958

Topics

LifeWorkRomanticWritingCareer

The Baltimore boys only defend themselves when playing against teams that treat us mean, especially that bunch from Cincinnati.

Joe Kelley

TreatMeanDefendPlayingAgainst

Some people call God, some people call Allah; I want to see the fruit of the love, I want to see the love, the love to help the brothers who may not be as fortunate as us.

MC Hammer

LoveGodPeopleFruitHelpWant

All flowers in time bend towards the sun, I know you say there's no one for you, But here is one.

Jeff Buckley

TimeSunFlowersYouKnowSay

I don't set a whole lot of goals. It smacks a little bit of will to me, and I find that will is not the way to go for me.

Michael J. Fox

GoalsMeFindGoWillWay

I visited an asylum to observe expressions of the mentally disturbed and to get my body language right for the blind girl's role. I visited the blind school, read the autobiography of Helen Keller, and watched a number of films from 'Scent of a Woman' to 'Anurag,' 'Fanaa' and 'Black.'

Sriti Jha

GirlWomanSchoolBlindLanguage

The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon. You can always do it better, find the exact word, the apt phrase, the leaping simile.

Robert Cormier

BeautifulTimeBrainWritingBetter

You can't be a crazy rebel in the face of death, it's not a fitting attitude.

Michel Houellebecq

AttitudeDeathCrazyFaceYouRebel

A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull.

Louis Auchincloss

GeniusWillAlwaysDangerGreatest

I don't really think of myself or picture myself as a Hollywood person.

Josie Bissett

MyselfThinkPicturePersonReally

In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.

Joseph Stalin

CourageArmyMoreSovietRetreat

The people who succeed are those who are aware of the rules; they respect the rules. But they make up their own rules. They create for creative sake.

Donna Lynne Champlin

RespectCreativePeopleSucceedOwn

I'm a sprinter man. We don't jog; we don't walk. It's full-out. It's big engines. You don't take a car that has 600 horsepower for a cross-country drive.

Donovan Bailey

CarWalkManDriveYouBig

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