Mary MacLane Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• You may think me crude, and probably I am crude, but I am not so crude as I was, for I am clever enough to see that the girl of nineteen who thought herself a genius was only an unusual girl writing her heart out.

  Mary MacLane

  Girl, Clever, Writing

• Just why I sent it to the publishers would be hard to say, but when I had finished it I felt that it was literature, because it is real and because it was well written. And I know that the world wants such things.

  Mary MacLane

  Real, Writing, Would Be

• 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

• I write every day. Writing is a necessity - like eating.

  Mary MacLane

  Writing, Eating

  Mary MacLane (2014). “Human Days: A Mary MacLane Reader”, p.20, Petrarca Press

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