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Mary Roberts Rinehart was an American writer known for her suspense novels. She is considered a pioneer in the genre of detective fiction and is often referred to as the 'Mother of Detective Fiction'.

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Famous Mary Roberts Rinehart Quotes

“Natalie Spenser was giving a dinner. She was not an easy hostess.”

Giving Book Easy Dinner Hostesses Spenser

Author:Mary Roberts Rinehart

“The stage on which we play our little dramas of life and love has for most of us but one setting.”

Littles Book Play Stage Drama And Love Setting Settings Life And Love

Book:The Amazing Interlude/The Street of Seven Stars

Source: The Amazing Interlude/The Street of Seven Stars

“Young Doctor Arden was gong through the process of reorienting himself after a night's sleep.”

Book Young Night Process Sleep Doctors Gongs

Author:Mary Roberts Rinehart

“McKnight is gradually taking over the criminal end of the business.”

Book Ends Criminals

Book:The Man in Lower Ten

Source: The Man in Lower Ten

“Some day some one will write a book about that frantic search of the creative worker for silence and freedom, not only from interruption but from the fear of interruption.”

Writing Book Silence Creative Workers Creative Work Interruptions Frantic

Book:My Story

Source: My Story

“my crime books are actually novels and are written as such. One might even say that each one is really two novels, one of which is the story I tell the reader, and the other the buried story I know and let slip now and then into a clue to whet the reader's interest.”

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Book:The Mary Roberts Rinehart crime book

Source: The Mary Roberts Rinehart crime book

“there is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt. A book may fail, but who is there to know it? It dies and is buried, and is decently interred on the bookseller's shelf; but the play dies to laughter, to scorn and disdain.”

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Book:My Story

Source: My Story

“[When working on a book] I have an almost complete detachment from the world I live in, a sort of armor against distraction. I talk to people, move about, appear on the surface much as usual. But later on I have only a confused memory of what has happened during that period.”

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Author:Mary Roberts Rinehart

About the Author

Born: August 12, 1876
Died: September 22, 1958
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 101

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Oh, Well, You Know How Women Are: And Isn't that Just Like a ManRelated source material

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Tish: The Chronicle of Her Escapades and ExcursionsRelated source material

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