Quotes by Fannie Hurst

Fannie Hurst

[Wishing her mother had named her Beulah:] At least you did not sit on your beulah.

Mother

Wish

A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.

Half

Men

Women

A woman is not a whole woman without the experience of marriage. In the case of a bad marriage, you win if you lose. Of the two alternatives – bad marriage or none – I believe bad marriage would be better. It is a bitter experience and a high price to pay for fulfillment, but it is the better alternative.

Believe

Marriage

Winning

Any work of art … is great when it makes you feel that its creator has dipped into your very heart for his sensation.

Art

Creator

Feels

Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.

Names

One Thing

Art transcends war. Art is the language of God and war is the barking of men. Beethoven is bigger than war.

Art

Men

War

But suppose, asks the student of the professor, we follow all your structural rules for writing, what about that something else that brings the book alive? What is the formula for that? The formula for that is not included in the curriculum.

Alive

Book

Writing

Charm is an odorless perfume, which cannot be anchored in the chemists’ test tube. It is a permeation, a radiation. It emanates from the climate of a warm human spirit, which not only contains light, but gives it off.

Giving

Light

Radiation

Crushed to earth and rising again is an author’s gymnastic. Once he fails to struggle to his feet and grab his pen, he will contemplate a fact he should never permit himself to face: that in all probability books have been written, are being written, will be written, better than anything he has done, is doing, or will do.

Book

Perseverance

Struggle

Family. A snug kind of word.

Family

Kind

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Alive

Army

Art

Believe

Book

Bridges

Canyons

Clever

Color

Come Up

Creative

Creator

Criticism

Debtors

Divorce

Done

Eating

Eden

Family

Feels

Feet

Gestures

Giving

Grand Canyon

Guests

Half

Hands

Hate

Home

Host

Icicles

Inspirational

Jobs

Kind

Letters

Life

Light

Lots Of Money

Marriage

Men

Mind

Momentum

Morning

Mother

Names

Nervous

Not Happy

One Thing

Pain

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Quotes by Fannie Hurst

Fannie Hurst

[Wishing her mother had named her Beulah:] At least you did not sit on your beulah.

A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.

Any work of art … is great when it makes you feel that its creator has dipped into your very heart for his sensation.

Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.

Art transcends war. Art is the language of God and war is the barking of men. Beethoven is bigger than war.

But suppose, asks the student of the professor, we follow all your structural rules for writing, what about that something else that brings the book alive? What is the formula for that? The formula for that is not included in the curriculum.

Charm is an odorless perfume, which cannot be anchored in the chemists’ test tube. It is a permeation, a radiation. It emanates from the climate of a warm human spirit, which not only contains light, but gives it off.

Family. A snug kind of word.

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