127 Quotes by Mary Roberts Rinehart

[The writer] wants both to do the best possible work and also to reach the largest possible audience. The result is a fairly normal condition of discouragement.

Of one thing the reader can be certain: the more easily anything reads, the harder it has been to write.

The author lives with one foot in an everyday world and the other feeling about anxiously for a foothold in another more precarious one.

[When working on a book] I have an almost complete detachment from the world I live in, a sort of armor against distraction. I talk to people, move about, appear on the surface much as usual. But later on I have only a confused memory of what has happened during that period.

I began to feel that if religion was either an illusion or a revelation, it was simpler to accept it as an illusion.

pretense is the oil that lubricates society.

There is no place in the world, I imagine, for a philosopher with a sense of humor, a new leisure, and an inquiring turn of mind!

I have a great deal of mind. It takes a long time to change it.

Herbert used to say that he was as tight as the paper on the wall.