99 Quotes by Mary MacLane

Some people say that beauty is a curse. It may be true, but I’m sure I should not have at all minded being cursed a little.

I am not good. I am not virtuous. I am not sympathetic. I am not generous. I am merely and above all a creature of intense passionate feeling. I feel – everything. It is my genius. It burns me like fire.

People say of me, ‘She’s peculiar.’ They do not understand me. If they did they would say so oftener and with emphasis.

May I never, I say, become that abnormal, merciless animal, that deformed monstrosity – a virtuous woman.

I write every day. Writing is a necessity – like eating.

When I wrote my book I wanted to love someone. I wanted to be in love. Now I know that I shall never be in love – and I no longer wish to be.

The highest thing one can do in literature is to succeed in saying that thing which one meant to say. There is nothing better than that – to make the world see your thoughts as you see them.

I’ve never made plans for more than a day ahead.

One’s thoughts are one’s most crucial adventures. Seriously and strongly and intently to contemplate doing murder is everyway more exciting, more romantic, more profoundly tragic than the murder done.