Top 18 Quotes & Sayings by Nancy Hale

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American novelist Nancy Hale.

Last updated on September 19, 2024.

Nancy Hale was an American novelist and short-story writer. She received the O. Henry Award, a Benjamin Franklin magazine award, and the Henry H. Bellaman Foundation Award for fiction.

American - Novelist | May 6, 1908 - September 24, 1988

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We might likewise say that humans are the neurotics of the animal world, in that they are the only animals who must choose to be instead of just instinctively being.

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Creation lives alone in a small temple. Only one may worship at a time.

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The dead hand of research lies heavy on too many novels.

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imagination is new reality in the process of being created. It represents the part of the existing order that can still grow.

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After my mother's death, I began to see her as she had really been.... It was less like losing someone than discovering someone.

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In order to go anywhere it is necessary to be where one is.

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Many an author will speak of writing, in his best work, more than he actually knows.

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Never give away your work. People don’t value what they don’t have to pay for.

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one must find one's natural home, not try to construct it.

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Malicious gossip takes the place of creation in non-creative lives.

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The more specific you are, the more universal you are.

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The dark has to be contained in the light or the light will be contained in the dark.

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To do anything, it is first necessary to be doing nothing.

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The best work of artists in any age is the work of innocence liberated by technical knowledge. The laboratory experiments that led to the theory of pure color equipped the impressionists to paint nature as if it had only just been created.

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Mine! There isn't any such thing as mine. The world slips slithering through my fingers.

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If civilization ever achieves a higher standard of what constitutes normality, it will have been the neurotic who led the way.

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