39 Quotes by Fannie Hurst

The maimed bodies aren't the worst. That's the easy way to hate war. The safe way. I - hate it just as much for the maimed souls that stay at home ...

I loathe all this blind rushing pell-mell into a struggle arranged by the mighty minority and paid for with the lives of young men who are drugged on trumped-up ideals.

The creative writer is usually captive to his next book.

we dig our graves with our teeth.

A woman is not a whole woman without the experience of marriage. In the case of a bad marriage, you win if you lose. Of the two alternatives - bad marriage or none - I believe bad marriage would be better. It is a bitter experience and a high price to pay for fulfillment, but it is the better alternative.

Any work of art ... is great when it makes you feel that its creator has dipped into your very heart for his sensation.

Nervous hands as if the fingers were dripping from them like icicles.

Life owes me a living worth living. Yes, Eden regarded life as her debtor, she its relentless paymaster.

Isn't success ridiculously easy, once it begins to succeed? ... after the strain and sweat and pushing until the very groins of your being shrieked protest, something like momentum happened. It took your wits and your concentration and your continued willing sweat, of course, to keep it going, but the success of success had ball bearings.