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
writing careers may
The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer's life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab.
book writing creative
Some day some one will write a book about that frantic search of the creative worker for silence and freedom, not only from interruption but from the fear of interruption.
writing certain harder
Of one thing the reader can be certain: the more easily anything reads, the harder it has been to write.
writing perfect people
it is axiomatic with most writing people that there are no such things as perfect conditions for work.
weapons world ridicule
The greatest weapon in the world ... is ridicule.
lasts firsts haste
the theater is the only money-making business I know in which haste apparently rules from first to last.
fall rain unjust
Suspicion is like the rain. It falls on the just and on the unjust.
curiosity unbearable hunger
There is a point at which curiosity becomes unbearable, when it becomes an obsession, like hunger.
courage men coward
It is only in his head that man is heroic; in the pit of his stomach he is always a coward.
essence essence-of-life conflict
Conflict is the very essence of life.
class hatred steps
From class consciousness to class hatred was but a step.
christmas heart might
Curious, how one remembered Christmas. Perhaps because other days might appeal to the head, but this one appealed to the heart.
boredom calm resurrection
the calm of a place like Bellwood is the peace of death without the hope of resurrection.
honest autobiography
there is no truly honest autobiography.