Sarah Orne Jewett
Sarah Orne Jewett
Sarah Orne Jewettwas an American novelist, short story writer and poet, best known for her local color works set along or near the southern seacoast of Maine. Jewett is recognized as an important practitioner of American literary regionalism...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth3 September 1849
CountryUnited States of America
Sarah Orne Jewett quotes about
true-friend growth may
The growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair.
wrinkles childhood age
My childhood is very vivid to me, and I don't feel very different now from the way I felt then. It would appear I am the very same person, only with wrinkles.
regret secret recluse
In the life of each of us there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness.
writing world quiet
You must find your own quiet center of life, and write from that to the world.
sight blossoming sun
The warm sun kissed the earthTo consecrate thy birth,And from his close embraceThy radiant faceSprang into sight,A blossoming delight.
good-luck long waiting
Your patience may have long to wait,Whether in little things or great,But all good luck, you soon will learn,Must come to those who nobly earn.Who hunts the hay-field overWill find the four-leaved clover.
sorrow bears hardest
A lean sorrow is hardest to bear.
compassion want next
I've got 's much feelin' as the next one, but when folks drives in their spiggits and wants to draw a bucketful o' compassion every day right straight along, there does come times when it seems as if the bar'l was getting low.
imagination world true-things
Imagination is the only true thing in the world!
sight imagination world
it is only unimaginative persons who can be really astonished. The imagination can always outrun the possible and actual sights and sounds of the world ...
black-and-white thinking interesting
A story should be managed so that it should suggest interesting things to the reader instead of the author's doing all the thinking for him, and setting it before him in black and white.
worthwhile
Tain't worthwhile to wear a day all out before it comes.
falling-in-love sight growth
The process of falling in love at first sight is as final as it is swift in such a case, but the growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair.
years mind literature
The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper - whether little or great, it belongs to Literature.