Quotes from Catherine Gaskin

I think it's so important for a woman, if she's a writer, to look as feminine as possible.

Getting to my typewriter is something I push myself to, but once I am working, I work hard.

Woman novelists seem to have a reputation for being dowdy.

I have a conscience about my work and try to turn out a good piece of craftsmanship.

Although I long to get away from the typewriter, if I think I can produce a better opening or a better closing to a chapter, I'll change and change round again until I'm satisfied.

against the houses, and turned the streets

But I had promised myself, and my grandfather, that never again would I show fear or apprehension of the

The face I saw always seemed to belong to a stranger - was it because I tried to please too many people too often, and had never given myself a chance to let my own personality come through on it?

I'll never leave here. If I left here, I'd die. And I'll die before I leave here.

His knowledge of his origins was Harry's strength - more than any other man I had ever known. His women were the decorations of his success; no particular woman, it seemed, was essential to him.

Strangers who have talked too much were often better never to meet again.

All I needed was a little time. A time to get used to the creature who had broken from the chrysalis; the wings yet were feeble and uncertain.

Fiction is organized gossip.

Writing is too lonely. I'd rather talk.