“ The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer's life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab. Mary Roberts Rinehart
“ To be kind to all to like many and love a few to be needed and wanted by those we love is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness. Mary Roberts Rinehart
“ Yet she [Jane Porter] asks little enough: a quiet life, peace, and if not active happiness, that resignation which after the hot days of youth are over, passes for contentment. Mary Roberts Rinehart
“ The world doesn't come to the clever folks it comes to the stubborn obstinate one-idea-at-a-time people. Mary Roberts Rinehart
“ Her eyes filled. "He forgot my birthday, two weeks ago," she said. "It was the first one he had ever forgotten, in nineteen of them." Nineteen! Nineteen from thirty-five leaves sixteen! Mary Roberts Rinehart
“ In my criminal work anything that wears skirts is a lady, until the law proves her otherwise. From the frayed and slovenly petticoats of the woman who owns a poultry stand in the market and who has gr… Mary Roberts Rinehart
“ War is not two great armies meeting in the clash and frenzy of battle. War is a boy being carried on a stretcher, looking up at God’s blue sky with bewildered eyes that are soon to close; war is a wom… Mary Roberts Rinehart
