NOVELISTS > novelist, short-story writer > Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton: After all, one...

Source: NOVELISTS

After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.

Source: Letter, 19 Nov 1907.
-- Edith Wharton, (Jan 24 1862-1937), US novelist, short-story writer; She wrote about upper-class New York society in Ethan Frome, 1911 and The Age of Innocence, 1920.


(C)2024 Quotable Women - All Rights Reserved.

Quotable Women
Harrisonburg, VA