Mary Roberts Rinehart
Mary Roberts Rinehart
Mary Roberts Rinehartwas an American writer, often called the American Agatha Christie, although her first mystery novel was published 14 years before Christie's first novel in 1922...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth12 August 1876
CountryUnited States of America
tragedy world growing
That is the tragedy of growing old, Chris. You don't leave the world. It leaves you.
action life-is results
every act of one's life is the unavoidable result of every act that has preceded it.
lonely loneliness cat
A cat and a Bible, and nobody needs to be lonely.
relief trouble burden
When a great burden is lifted, the relief is not always felt at once. The galled places still ache.
weapons world ridicule
The greatest weapon in the world ... is ridicule.
unexpected terror knows
Every writer knows the terror of an unexpected success. How to carry on? How to repeat it?
hands want lawyer
Besides, you want the unvarnished and ungarnished truth, and I'm no hand for that. I'm a lawyer.
trouble
It's money that brings trouble. It always has and it always will.
names letters welcome
I found that my name signed to a check was even more welcome than when signed to a letter ...
christmas heart might
Curious, how one remembered Christmas. Perhaps because other days might appeal to the head, but this one appealed to the heart.
curiosity unbearable hunger
There is a point at which curiosity becomes unbearable, when it becomes an obsession, like hunger.
lightning contradicting danger
Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.
typewriters miserable not-happy
We are often miserable at our desk or typewriters, but not happy away from them.
gasoline absurd seems
I have never learned to say 'gas' for gasoline. It seems to me as absurd as if I were to say 'but' for butter.