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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

“That is the tragedy of growing old, Chris. You don't leave the world. It leaves you.”

World Growing Tragedy Growing Old

Author:Mary Roberts Rinehart

“[On fishing:] Greatest rest in the world for the brain.”

World Brain Fishing

Book:The Red Lamp

Source: The Red Lamp

“I believe that the matter is automatically self-regulating; that those women who prefer the home and have an ability for it will eventually return to it; that others, like myself, will compromise; and that still others, temperamentally unfitted for it, will remain in the world to add to its productivity.”

World Believe Stills Self Matter Home I Believe Women Ability Return Add Productivity Compromise

Book:My Story

Source: My Story

“There is no place in the world, I imagine, for a philosopher with a sense of humor, a new leisure, and an inquiring turn of mind!”

World Mind Philosophy Turns Imagine Philosopher Sense Of Humor Leisure Places In The World Inquiring

Book:The Red Lamp

Source: The Red Lamp

“The greatest weapon in the world ... is ridicule.”

World Weapons Ridicule

Book:Tish: The Chronicle of Her Escapades and Excursions

Source: Tish: The Chronicle of Her Escapades and Excursions

“Patience and endurance were not virtues in a woman; they were necessities, forced on her. Perhaps some day things would change and women would renounce them. They would rise up and say: 'We are not patient. We will endure no more.' Then what would happen to the world?”

World Happens Virtue Endure Patient Endurance Renounce

Author:Mary Roberts Rinehart

“[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.”

People World Book Moving Memories Happened Periods Surface Confused Distraction Usual Detachment Armor

Author:Mary Roberts Rinehart

“The author lives with one foot in an everyday world and the other feeling about anxiously for a foothold in another more precarious one.”

World Feelings Feet Everyday Precarious

Book:Writing is Work

Source: Writing is Work

“The world doesn't come to the clever folks, it comes to the stubborn, obstinate, one-idea-at-a-time people.”

People World Ideas Time Perseverance Folks Clever Stubborn Tenacity Obstinate

Book:Affinities

Source: Affinities

About the Author

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

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My StoryRelated source material

The Red LampRelated source material

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

When a Man Marries/The Window at the White CatRelated source material

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A Poor Wise ManRelated source material

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