Quotes by Sarah Orne Jewett

Sarah Orne Jewett

A harbor, even if it is a little harbor, is a good thing, since adventurers come into it as well as go out, and the life in it grows strong, because it takes something from the world, and has something to give in return.

Giving

Strong

World

A lean sorrow is hardest to bear.

Bears

Hardest

Sorrow

A story should be managed so that it should suggest interesting things to the reader instead of the author’s doing all the thinking for him, and setting it before him in black and white.

Black And White

Interesting

Thinking

Conversation’s got to have some root in the past, or else you’ve got to explain every remark you make, an’ it wears a person out.

Conversation

Past

Roots

Do not hurry too fast in these early winter days, – a quiet hour is worth more to you than anything you can do in it.

Peace

Quiet

Winter

Don’t scatter your fire! You are a prose writer: stick to your own tool!

Fire

Sticks

Tools

God would not give us the same talent if what were right for men were wrong for women.

Giving

Men

Talent

I’ve found that people who look at things as they are, and not as they wish them to be, are the ones who succeed.

People

Reality

Thinking

I’ve got ‘s much feelin’ as the next one, but when folks drives in their spiggits and wants to draw a bucketful o’ compassion every day right straight along, there does come times when it seems as if the bar’l was getting low.

Compassion

Doe

The Next One

if you don’t keep and guard and mature your force, and above all, have time and quiet to perfect your work, you will be writing things not much better than you did five years ago. … you must write to the human heart, the great consciousness that all humanity goes to make up. Otherwise what might be strength in a writer is only crudeness, and what might be insight is only observation; sentimemnt falls to sentimentality – you can write about life, but never write life itself.

Fall

Heart

Writing

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Age

Aging

Bears

Black And White

Blind

Blossoming

Cat

Cells

Childhood

Children

Comfort

Compassion

Conversation

Country

Daughter

Death

Different

Disputes

Distance

Doe

Education

Ems

Eye

Fall

Falling In Love

Fathers Day

Feelings

Fire

Flower

Forever

Friendship

Given

Giving

Good Luck

Grateful

Grief

Growth

Happiness

Hardest

Healing

Heart

History

Home

Hygiene

Ignorance

Imagination

Inspirational

Interesting

Knowing

Law

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Quotes by Sarah Orne Jewett

Sarah Orne Jewett

A harbor, even if it is a little harbor, is a good thing, since adventurers come into it as well as go out, and the life in it grows strong, because it takes something from the world, and has something to give in return.

A lean sorrow is hardest to bear.

A story should be managed so that it should suggest interesting things to the reader instead of the author’s doing all the thinking for him, and setting it before him in black and white.

Conversation’s got to have some root in the past, or else you’ve got to explain every remark you make, an’ it wears a person out.

Do not hurry too fast in these early winter days, – a quiet hour is worth more to you than anything you can do in it.

Don’t scatter your fire! You are a prose writer: stick to your own tool!

God would not give us the same talent if what were right for men were wrong for women.

I’ve found that people who look at things as they are, and not as they wish them to be, are the ones who succeed.

I’ve got ‘s much feelin’ as the next one, but when folks drives in their spiggits and wants to draw a bucketful o’ compassion every day right straight along, there does come times when it seems as if the bar’l was getting low.

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