Quotes from Fannie Hurst

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

Sex is a discovery.

Life owes me a living worth living. Yes, Eden regarded life as her debtor, she its relentless paymaster.

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

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.

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

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

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

One evening in one of those Over-the-Rhine cafes which were plentiful along Vine Street of the Cincinnati of the nineties, a traveling salesman leaned across his stein of Moerlein's Extra Light and openly accused Ray Schmidt of being innocent.

The grand canyon which yawns between the writer's concept of what he wants to capture in words and what comes through is a cruel abyss.

A woman is not a whole woman without the experience of marriage. In the case of a bad marriage, you win if you lose. Of the two alternatives - bad marriage or none - I believe bad marriage would be better. It is a bitter experience and a high price to pay for fulfillment, but it is the better alternative.

Art transcends war. Art is the language of God and war is the barking of men. Beethoven is bigger than war.

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

I loathe all this blind rushing pell-mell into a struggle arranged by the mighty minority and paid for with the lives of young men who are drugged on trumped-up ideals.

The vast army of women seeking divorce are mainly after easy alimony from men they have ceased to love - surely one of the most despicable forms of barter that can exchange human hands.

It would be a fallacy to deduce that the slow writer necessarily comes up with superior work. There seems to be scant relationshipbetween prolificness and quality.

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

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.