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
writing trying way
Write it as it is, don't try to make it like this or that. You can't do it in anybody else's way-you will have to make a way of your own.
american-author
What has made this nation great? Not its heroes but its households.
american-author
The road was new to me, as roads always are, going back.
love-is blind only-love
Love isn't blind; it's only love that sees!
death self waking
the mysterious moment of death proves to be a moment of waking. How one longs to take it for one's self!
education memories school
There is something out of gear about graded schools and all that. Memory is developed at the expense of what in general we are pleased to call thought and character.
patience mistake men
There was a patient look on the old man's face, as if the world were a great mistake and he had nobody with whom to speak his own language or find companionship.
nice loneliness home
Such a nice day - out all day up in the Carter Notch direction, trout-fishing, with the long drive there and the long drive home again in time for supper. It was a lovely brook and I caught seven good trout and one small one - which eight trout-persons you should have for your breakfast if only you were near enough. It was not alone the fishing, but the delightful loneliness and being out of doors.
happiness long return
Life was resumed, and anxious living blew away as if it had not been. I could not breathe deep enough or long enough. It was a return to happiness.
healing thinking sick
There's some herb that's good for everybody, except for them that thinks they're sick when they ain't.
interesting feelings satisfaction
Satisfaction, even after one has dined well, is not so interesting and eager a feeling as hunger.
fire tools sticks
Don't scatter your fire! You are a prose writer: stick to your own tool!
travel said
Who was it said that you never get to a place until a day after you come, nor leave it until a day after you go?
imagination world true-things
Imagination is the only true thing in the world!