Mary Roberts Rinehart Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• there is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt. A book may fail, but who is there to know it? It dies and is buried, and is decently interred on the bookseller's shelf; but the play dies to laughter, to scorn and disdain.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Laughter, Book, Play

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (1931). “My story”, Farrar & Rinehart

• [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.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Memories, Confused, Moving

• Natalie Spenser was giving a dinner. She was not an easy hostess.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Book, Giving, Dinner

• The stage on which we play our little dramas of life and love has for most of us but one setting.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Life And Love, Drama, Book

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2000). “The Amazing Interlude/The Street of Seven Stars”, p.9, Essential Library

• Young Doctor Arden was gong through the process of reorienting himself after a night's sleep.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Book, Sleep, Night

• McKnight is gradually taking over the criminal end of the business.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Book, Criminals, Ends

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2015). “The Man in Lower Ten”, p.2, Booklassic

• Some day some one will write a book about that frantic search of the creative worker for silence and freedom, not only from interruption but from the fear of interruption.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Book, Writing, Silence

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (1931). “My story”, Farrar & Rinehart

• my crime books are actually novels and are written as such. One might even say that each one is really two novels, one of which is the story I tell the reader, and the other the buried story I know and let slip now and then into a clue to whet the reader's interest.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Book, Two, Stories

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (1957). “The Mary Roberts Rinehart crime book”

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