66 Quotes by Gene Stratton-Porter

I write as the birds sing, because I must, and usually from the same source of inspiration.

You cannot write on the heart of another what you do not feel yourself.

The seasons run with swift feet.

Turn her loose out of doors; give her good books, and leave her alone. You won’t be disappointed in the woman who evolves.

To my way of thinking and working, the greatest service a piece of fiction can do any reader is to force him to lay it down with a higher ideal of life than he had when he took it up.

Sometimes it seems to me that the more we get hurt in this world the decenter it makes us.

Being dead was one thing, getting ready for a wedding another.

To me, it seems the only pleasure in this world worth having is the joy we derive from living for those we love, and those we can help.

When any man accumulates more than he can earn with his own hands, he begins to enrich himself at the expense of the youth, the sweat, the blood, the joy of his fellow men.