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Gertrude Stein: Remarks are not...

Gertrude Stein: Remarks are not...

Remarks are not literature.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference...

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Paule Marshall: Perhaps she was...

Paule Marshall: Perhaps she was...

Perhaps she was both child and woman,
darkness and light, past and present,
life and death -- all the...

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Pearl Buck: Self-expression must pass...

Pearl Buck: Self-expression must pass...

Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.

Source: The...

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Eudora Welty: Writing fiction has...

Eudora Welty: Writing fiction has...

Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to...

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Gail Godwin: Actors between plays...

Gail Godwin: Actors between plays...

Actors between plays are like ghosts looking for bodies to inhabit.

Source: The...

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Patricia McKillip: Content, it dreams...

Patricia McKillip: Content, it dreams...

Content, it dreams awake, and spins the fabric of tales. There is really nothing to be done with such imagery except...

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Isak Dinesen: But the trouble...

Isak Dinesen: But the trouble...

But the trouble is not as you think now, that we have put up obstacles too high for you to jump . . . . It is that we...

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Jean Stafford: Indeed, the sole...

Jean Stafford: Indeed, the sole...

Indeed, the sole criticism of him was that he prolonged beyond the point of decency, his look of nuptial rapture and...

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Amy Tan: In America nobody...

Amy Tan: In America nobody...

In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you.

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Jean Ingelow: A healthful hunger...

Jean Ingelow: A healthful hunger...

A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.

Source:...

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Nella Larsen: Why couldn't she...

Nella Larsen: Why couldn't she...

Why couldn't she have two lives, or why couldn't she be satisfied in one place?

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Louisa May Alcott: A faithful friend...

Louisa May Alcott: A faithful friend...

A faithful friend is a strong defense; And he that hath found him hath found a treasure.

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Louisa May Alcott: Conceit spoils the...

Louisa May Alcott: Conceit spoils the...

Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even...

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George Eliot: It is only...

George Eliot: It is only...

It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have...

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George Eliot: To have in...

George Eliot: To have in...

To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular...

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Mary McCarthy: Every age has...

Mary McCarthy: Every age has...

Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.

Source: On the Contrary, pt. 1,...

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Mary McCarthy: I am putting...

Mary McCarthy: I am putting...

I am putting real plums into an imaginary cake.

Source: On The Group,, her 1963...

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Lillian Smith: Education is a...

Lillian Smith: Education is a...

Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with...

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Enid Bagnold: Judges don't age....

Enid Bagnold: Judges don't age....

Judges don't age. Time decorates them.

Source: Judge, in The Chalk Garden, act...

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Dorothy Thompson: The instinct to...

Dorothy Thompson: The instinct to...

The instinct to worship is hardly less strong than the instinct to eat.

Source: In...

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