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
Mary Roberts Rinehart quotes about
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?
writing certain harder
Of one thing the reader can be certain: the more easily anything reads, the harder it has been to write.
feet feelings everyday
The author lives with one foot in an everyday world and the other feeling about anxiously for a foothold in another more precarious one.
want normal discouragement
[The writer] wants both to do the best possible work and also to reach the largest possible audience. The result is a fairly normal condition of discouragement.
hands want lawyer
Besides, you want the unvarnished and ungarnished truth, and I'm no hand for that. I'm a lawyer.
wine bottles milk
To the bottle! In infancy, the milk bottle; in our prime, the wine bottle; in our dotage, the pill bottle.
want firsts married
it's been my experience that the first few days of married life women are blind because they want to be and after that because they have to be.
long remember forget
I suppose that we are only young, Chris, so long as we can forget. After that we merely remember!
boys men elderly
as all women know, there are really no men at all. There are grown-up boys, and middle-aged boys, and elderly boys, and even sometimes very old boys. But the essential difference is simply exterior. Your man is always a boy.
wall paper used
Herbert used to say that he was as tight as the paper on the wall.
long mind deals
I have a great deal of mind. It takes a long time to change it.
moving mind barns
having considerable mind, changing it became almost as ponderous an operation as moving a barn, although not nearly so stable.