106 Quotes by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

people in general are totally unable to detach the personality of a writer from the products of his thinking.

Personal publicity is apt to be dangerous to any writer's integrity; for the moment he begins to fancy himself as quite a person, a taint creeps into his work.

When a wave of love takes over a human being... such an exaltation takes him that he knows he has put his finger on the pulse of the great secret and the great answer.

Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.

Living was no longer the grief behind him, but the anxiety ahead.

Ants in the house seem to be, not intruders, but the owners.

A dead tree, falling, made less havoc than a live one. It seemed as though a live tree went down fighting, like an animal.

Somewhere beyond the sink-hole, past the magnolia, under the live oaks, a boy and a yearling ran side by side, and were gone forever.

it is my conviction that the personality of the writer has nothing to do with the literate product of his mind. And publicity in this case embarrasses me because I am acutely conscious of how far short the book falls of the artistry I am struggling to achieve. It's like being caught half-dressed.