To 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-PorterDo you know that being a stranger is the hardest thing that can happen to any one in all this world?
Gene Stratton-PorterI write as the birds sing, because I must, and usually from the same source of inspiration.
Gene Stratton-Porter