Mary Lee Settle Professions : Writer Born : July 29, 1918 Died : September 27, 2005 Browse All Authors Top 8 quotes by Mary Lee Settle Anyone who has a choice and doesn't choose to write is a fool. The work is hard, the perks are few, the pay is terrible, and the product, when it's finally finished, is pure joy. Mary Lee Settle choices writing joy the first time you are reconciled to the terrible unfairness of disappointment, you are getting old. Mary Lee Settle disappointment first-time firsts Recorded history is wrong. It’s wrong because the voiceless have no voice in it. Mary Lee Settle voiceless voice Somerset Maugham said that it took at least six human beings to make one fictional character. That is true of landscape as well, I think. We have to make our landscapes, change streets, create new turnings, rebuild or tear down, change time, and even nature, if need be. Mary Lee Settle tears character thinking When I'm working on a serious and solid book ... I read about a detective novel a day. It's the best legal dope in the world. It makes you feel good until the next morning you can work again. Mary Lee Settle dope morning book Don't people know that it's the hardest work in the world? Joseph Conrad said that he had loaded hundredweights of coal all day long on a ship in Amsterdam in the wintertime, and that is was nothing to the energy demanded for a day's work writing. Mary Lee Settle writing long people [The inspiration that comes to authors of fiction] is not an act of intelligence. Mary Lee Settle inspiration fiction Having watched herself in the speckled mirror ... she was already shocked beyond surprise at what the flat hand of age could do. Mary Lee Settle mirrors age hands Similar Authors Ihab Hassan writer Ingmar Bergman writer Isabella Bird writer Ivan E. Coyote writer Al Feldstein writer Bert Sugar writer All Authors
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