Mary MacLane Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• It is with pain that I read of the dire effects of my book upon the minds of young girls.

  Mary MacLane

  Girl, Pain, Book

• I read of the Kalamazoo girl who killed herself after reading the book. I am not at all surprised. She lived in Kalamazoo, for one thing, and then she read the book.

  Mary MacLane

  Girl, Book, Reading

• I want to write such things as compel the admiring acclamation of the world at large, such things as are written but once in years, things subtle but distinctly different from the books written every day.

  Mary MacLane

  Book, Writing, Years

  Mary MacLane (2014). “Human Days: A Mary MacLane Reader”, p.24, Petrarca Press

• Well, if I am not vulgar, neither is my book. I wrote myself. Suggestiveness is always vulgar. But truth never. My book is not even remotely suggestive. I call things by their names. That is all.

  Mary MacLane

  Book, Names, Vulgar

• When I wrote my book I wanted to love someone. I wanted to be in love. Now I know that I shall never be in love - and I no longer wish to be.

  Mary MacLane

  Book, Liking Someone, Wish

  Mary MacLane (2014). “I Await the Devil's Coming: Annotated & Unexpurgated”, p.125, Petrarca Press

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