it takes the very wisest person there is to know when to talk, and when to keep still.
Gene Stratton-PorterThe Cardinal ... It was as if a pulsing heart of flame passed by when he came winging through the orchard.
Gene Stratton-PorterTo my way of thinking and working, the greatest service a piece of fiction can do any reader is to force him to lay it down with a higher ideal of life than he had when he took it up.
Gene Stratton-PorterThere was an exquisitely beautiful conception in my brain when I did this piece of work all alone from midnight until morning after the experience of a wonderful day. But I was not able to make the consummation anywhere nearly as beautiful as the inspiration. That, I suppose, is the cry of every heart struggling for self-expression.
Gene Stratton-Porter