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
time clever ideas
The world doesn't come to the clever folks, it comes to the stubborn, obstinate, one-idea-at-a-time people.
peace affirmation passive
Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation.
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.
children men thinking
Men... look back on the children who were once themselves, and attempt to reconstruct them. But they can no longer think like the child...
writing perfect people
it is axiomatic with most writing people that there are no such things as perfect conditions for work.
women believe home
I believe that the matter is automatically self-regulating; that those women who prefer the home and have an ability for it will eventually return to it; that others, like myself, will compromise; and that still others, temperamentally unfitted for it, will remain in the world to add to its productivity ...
hair my-family social
my family, although it keeps its hair, turns gray early - a business asset but a social handicap.
fishing brain world
[On fishing:] Greatest rest in the world for the brain.
age experience generations
What a tragedy it was that the only thing age could offer to youth was its own experience, and that the experiences of others were never profitable.
opportunity equality men
Men were not equal in the effort they made, nor did equal efforts bring equal result. ... Equality of opportunity, yes. Equality of effort and result, no.
character enemy indication
Enemies are an indication of character.
divorce oil disagreeable
I have always regarded divorce as essentially disagreeable, like castor oil, but necessary.
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.