Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Zona Gale

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American novelist Zona Gale.

Last updated on November 6, 2024.

Zona Gale, also known by her married name, Zona Gale Breese, was an American novelist, short story writer, and playwright. She became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1921. The close relationship she had with her parents set the tone for her writing and her personal life. Her books based upon her home town were found to be charming and had an intimate sense of realism, in which she captures the underlying feelings and motivations of her characters. All of her works were written under her maiden name, Zona Gale.

American - Novelist | August 26, 1874 - December 27, 1938

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When you look at a corpse you can always sense your own breath better.

Zona Gale

I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion.

Zona Gale

The unexpressed is always of greater value than the expressed.

Zona Gale

I can never understand why I should eat at one or sleep at eleven, if it is, as it often is, my one and my eleven and nobody else's. For, as between the clock and me alone, one and eleven and all other o'clocks are mine and I am not theirs. But I have known men and women living in hotels who would interrupt a sunset to go to dine, or wave away the stars in their courses to go to sleep, merely because the hour had struck.

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Loving, like prayer, is a power as well as a process. It's curative. It is creative.

Zona Gale

I tell you of all history the most beautiful product is the family tie.

Zona Gale

Always he had wanted to tell somebody about his life, but when he had tried, his confidante had looked at him.

Zona Gale