Fannie Hurst Quotes

I'm not happy when I'm writing, but I'm more unhappy when I'm not.

A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.

Art transcends war. Art is the language of God and war is the barking of men. Beethoven is bigger than war.

Family. A snug kind of word.

Nervous hands as if the fingers were dripping from them like icicles.

The vast army of women seeking divorce are mainly after easy alimony from men they have ceased to love - surely one of the most despicable forms of barter that can exchange human hands.

I would rather regret what I have done than what I have not.

Few enjoy noisy overcrowded functions. But they are a gesture of goodwill on the part of host or hostess, and also on the part of guests who submit to them.

It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.

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 a harassed tribe, we writers.

Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.

The maimed bodies aren't the worst. That's the easy way to hate war. The safe way. I - hate it just as much for the maimed souls that stay at home.

I loathe all this blind rushing pell-mell into a struggle arranged by the mighty minority and paid for with the lives of young men who are drugged on trumped-up ideals.

[Wishing her mother had named her Beulah:] At least you did not sit on your beulah.

It would be a fallacy to deduce that the slow writer necessarily comes up with superior work. There seems to be scant relationshipbetween prolificness and quality.

Some people think they are worth a lot of money just because they have it.

Oh - oh, why is it that the members of a family feel privileged to treat one another with a cruelty they would not exhibit to the merest stranger?

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 abyss.

There is no adequate definition for creative writing, any more than it is possible to describe pain or flavor or color.

Life owes me a living worth living. Yes, Eden regarded life as her debtor, she its relentless paymaster.

The literary wiseacres prognosticate in many languages, as they have throughout so many centuries, setting the stage for new hautmonde in letters and making up the public's mind.

The creative writer is usually captive to his next book.

we dig our graves with our teeth.

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

Any work of art ... is great when it makes you feel that its creator has dipped into your very heart for his sensation.