39 Quotes by Fannie Hurst

The vast army of women seeking divorce are mainly after easy alimony from men they have ceased to love - surely one of the most despicable forms of barter that can exchange human hands.

Charm is an odorless perfume, which cannot be anchored in the chemists' test tube. It is a permeation, a radiation. It emanates from the climate of a warm human spirit, which not only contains light, but gives it off.

writing is the loneliest job in the world. There's always that frustrating chasm to bridge between the concept and the writing of it. We're a harassed tribe, we writers.

Art transcends war. Art is the language of God and war is the barking of men. Beethoven is bigger than war.

I would rather regret what I have done than what I have not.

I’m not happy when I’m writing, but I’m more unhappy when I’m not.

The grand canyon which yawns between the writer’s concept of what he wants to capture in words and what comes through is a cruel abyss.

The literary wiseacres prognosticate in many languages, as they have throughout so many centuries, setting the stage for new hautmonde in letters and making up the public’s mind.

Oh – oh, why is it that the members of a family feel privileged to treat one another with a cruelty they would not exhibit to the merest stranger?