Kathleen Norris
Kathleen Norris
Kathleen Thompson Norriswas a popular American novelist and newspaper columnist. She was one of the most widely read and highest paid female writers in the United States for nearly fifty years, from 1911 to 1959. Her stories appeared in the Atlantic, The American Magazine, McClure's, Everybody's, Ladies' Home Journal and Woman's Home Companion, and she wrote 93 novels, many of which were best sellers. She used her fiction to promote values including the sanctity of marriage, the nobility of motherhood,...
writing
I write what I would like to read.
loneliness writing world
I am learning to see loneliness as a seed that, when planted deep enough, can grow into writing that goes back out into the world.
motivation writing discipline
Acedia is a danger to anyone whose work requires great concentration and discipline yet is considered by many to be of little practical value. The world doesn't care if I write another word, and if I am to care, I have to summon all my interior motivation and strength.
writing heart mean
Poets are immersed in process, and I mean process not as an amorphous blur but as a discipline. The hard work of writing has taught me that in matters of the heart, such as writing, or faith, there is no right or wrong way to do it, but only the way of your life. Just paying attention will teach you what bears fruit and what doesn't. But it will be necessary to revise--to doodle, scratch out, erase, even make a mess of things--in order to make it come out right.
hate truth
Hate is all a lie, there is no truth in hate
change few knows months next none opportunity tenor unexpected waiting
None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting a few months or a few years to change all the tenor of our lives.
accept bear easier life necessary
Life is easier to take than you think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable and bear the intolerable.
accept bear easier life necessary
Life is easier than you'd think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable.
solitude
There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.
book good happier knowledge
Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier
girl trouble
Get a girl in trouble, then get her out again.
pain regret loss
In middle age we are apt to reach the horrifying conclusion that all sorrow, all pain, all passionate regret and loss and bitter disillusionment are self-made
pregnancy fruit melons
They are fruit and transport: ripening melons, prairie schooners journeying under full sail.
husband trouble
Changing husbands is only changing troubles.