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
distance home college
The fetish of the great university, of expensive colleges for young women, is too often simply a fetish. It is not based on a genuine desire for learning. Education today need not be sought at any great distance. It is largely compounded of two things, of a certain snobbishness on the part of parents, and of escape from home on the part of youth. And to those who must earn quickly it is often sheer waste of time. Very few colleges prepare their students for any special work.
church going-to-church pleasure
The one pleasure that never palls is the pleasure of not going to church.
typewriters miserable not-happy
We are often miserable at our desk or typewriters, but not happy away from them.
unexpected terror knows
Every writer knows the terror of an unexpected success. How to carry on? How to repeat it?
dirty grateful men
Politics is still the man's game. The women are allowed to do the chores, the dirty work, and now and then--but only occasionally--one is present at some secret conference or other. But it's not the rule. They can go out and get the vote, if they can and will; they can collect money, they can be grateful for being permitted to work. But that is all.
war men may
Old men make wars that young men may die.
remember one-love ifs
... if one can remember without loving, then couldn't one love without remembering?
sacrifice great-love tragedy
Great loves were almost always great tragedies. Perhaps it was because love was never truly great until the element of sacrifice entered into it.
america soul body
Courage was America's watchword, but a courage of the body rather than of the soul - physical courage, not moral.
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.
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.
memories confused moving
[When working on a book] I have an almost complete detachment from the world I live in, a sort of armor against distraction. I talk to people, move about, appear on the surface much as usual. But later on I have only a confused memory of what has happened during that period.
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.