Fannie Hurst

The Grand Canyon which yawns between the writers concept of what he wants to capture in words and what comes through is a cruel abyss.

Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.

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

There is no adequate definition for creative writing any more than it is possible to describe pain or flavor or color.

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.

Any work of art ... is great when it makes you feel that its creator has dipped into your very heart for his sensation.

It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.

Some people think they are worth a lot of money just because they have it.

Sex is a discovery.

Few enjoy noisy overcrowded functions. But they are a gesture of goodwill on the part of host or hostess, and also on the part of guests who submit to them.

A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.