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
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punctuation-marks vision pavement
I had a vision ... of being found on the pavement by some passerby, with a small punctuation mark ending my sentence of life.
boredom calm resurrection
the calm of a place like Bellwood is the peace of death without the hope of resurrection.
would-be needed adopted
[To her frequently needed plumber:] How would you like to be adopted? I'm sure it would be cheaper.
illusion revelations accepting
I began to feel that if religion was either an illusion or a revelation, it was simpler to accept it as an illusion.
laughter book play
there is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt. A book may fail, but who is there to know it? It dies and is buried, and is decently interred on the bookseller's shelf; but the play dies to laughter, to scorn and disdain.
saws lawyer making-money
I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.
life-and-love drama book
The stage on which we play our little dramas of life and love has for most of us but one setting.
tragedy world growing
That is the tragedy of growing old, Chris. You don't leave the world. It leaves you.
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?
trouble
It's money that brings trouble. It always has and it always will.
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.
endurance world patient
Patience and endurance were not virtues in a woman; they were necessities, forced on her. Perhaps some day things would change and women would renounce them. They would rise up and say: 'We are not patient. We will endure no more.' Then what would happen to the world?