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Top 20 Fannie Hurst Quotes (2025 Update)

Fannie Hurst Quote: “There is no adequate definition for creative writing, any more than it is possible to describe pain or flavor or color.”

1. “There is no adequate definition for creative writing, any more than it is possible to describe pain or flavor or color.”

— Fannie Hurst

Fannie Hurst Quote: “It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.”

2. “It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.”

— Fannie Hurst

Fannie Hurst Quote: “I would rather regret what I have done than what I have not.”

3. “I would rather regret what I have done than what I have not.”

— Fannie Hurst

Fannie Hurst Quote: “I’m not happy when I’m writing, but I’m more unhappy when I’m not.”

4. “I’m not happy when I’m writing, but I’m more unhappy when I’m not.”

— Fannie Hurst

Fannie Hurst Quote: “Oh – oh, why is it that the members of a family feel privileged to treat one another with a cruelty they would not exhibit to the merest stranger?”

5. “Oh – oh, why is it that the members of a family feel privileged to treat one another with a cruelty they would not exhibit to the merest stranger?”

— Fannie Hurst

Fannie Hurst Quote: “A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.”

6. “A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.”

— Fannie Hurst

Fannie Hurst Quote: “Some people think they are worth a lot of money just because they have it.”

7. “Some people think they are worth a lot of money just because they have it.”

— Fannie Hurst

Fannie Hurst Quote: “Family. A snug kind of word.”

8. “Family. A snug kind of word.”

— Fannie Hurst

Fannie Hurst Quote: “The grand canyon which yawns between the writer’s concept of what he wants to capture in words and what comes through is a cruel abyss.”

9. “The grand canyon which yawns between the writer’s concept of what he wants to capture in words and what comes through is a cruel abyss.”

— Fannie Hurst

Fannie Hurst Quote: “Nervous hands as if the fingers were dripping from them like icicles.”

10. “Nervous hands as if the fingers were dripping from them like icicles.”

— Fannie Hurst

Fannie Hurst Quote: “Art transcends war. Art is the language of God and war is the barking of men. Beethoven is bigger than war.”

11. “Art transcends war. Art is the language of God and war is the barking of men. Beethoven is bigger than war.”

— Fannie Hurst

Fannie Hurst Quote: “Luscious feet that listened to the soil and stole its secrets.”

12. “Luscious feet that listened to the soil and stole its secrets.”

— Fannie Hurst

Fannie Hurst Quote: “I loathe all this blind rushing pell-mell into a struggle arranged by the mighty minority and paid for with the lives of young men who are drugged on trumped-up ideals.”

13. “I loathe all this blind rushing pell-mell into a struggle arranged by the mighty minority and paid for with the lives of young men who are drugged on trumped-up ideals.”

— Fannie Hurst

Fannie Hurst Quote: “The vast army of women seeking divorce are mainly after easy alimony from men they have ceased to love – surely one of the most despicable forms of barter that can exchange human hands.”

14. “The vast army of women seeking divorce are mainly after easy alimony from men they have ceased to love – surely one of the most despicable forms of barter that can exchange human hands.”

— Fannie Hurst

Fannie Hurst Quote: “The maimed bodies aren’t the worst. That’s the easy way to hate war. The safe way. I – hate it just as much for the maimed souls that stay at home...”

15. “The maimed bodies aren’t the worst. That’s the easy way to hate war. The safe way. I – hate it just as much for the maimed souls that stay at home...”

— Fannie Hurst

Fannie Hurst Quote: “The literary wiseacres prognosticate in many languages, as they have throughout so many centuries, setting the stage for new hautmonde in letters and making up the public’s mind.”

16. “The literary wiseacres prognosticate in many languages, as they have throughout so many centuries, setting the stage for new hautmonde in letters and making up the public’s mind.”

— Fannie Hurst

Fannie Hurst Quote: “Few enjoy noisy overcrowded functions. But they are a gesture of goodwill on the part of host or hostess, and also on the part of guests who submit to them.”

17. “Few enjoy noisy overcrowded functions. But they are a gesture of goodwill on the part of host or hostess, and also on the part of guests who submit to them.”

— Fannie Hurst

Fannie Hurst Quote: “But suppose, asks the student of the professor, we follow all your structural rules for writing, what about that something else that brings the book alive? What is the formula for that? The formula for that is not included in the curriculum.”

18. “But suppose, asks the student of the professor, we follow all your structural rules for writing, what about that something else that brings the book alive? What is the formula for that? The formula for that is not included in the curriculum.”

— Fannie Hurst

Fannie Hurst Quote: “Life owes me a living worth living. Yes, Eden regarded life as her debtor, she its relentless paymaster.”

19. “Life owes me a living worth living. Yes, Eden regarded life as her debtor, she its relentless paymaster.”

— Fannie Hurst

Fannie Hurst Quote: “Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.”

20. “Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.”

— Fannie Hurst

Fannie Hurst Quote: “Some authors have what amounts to a metaphysical approach. They admit to inspiration. Sudden and unaccountable urgencies to writecatapult them out of sleep and bed. For myself, I have never awakened to jot down an idea that was acceptable the following morning.”

21. “Some authors have what amounts to a metaphysical approach. They admit to inspiration. Sudden and unaccountable urgencies to writecatapult them out of sleep and bed. For myself, I have never awakened to jot down an idea that was acceptable the following morning.”

— Fannie Hurst

Fannie Hurst Quote: “It would be a fallacy to deduce that the slow writer necessarily comes up with superior work. There seems to be scant relationshipbetween prolificness and quality.”

22. “It would be a fallacy to deduce that the slow writer necessarily comes up with superior work. There seems to be scant relationshipbetween prolificness and quality.”

— Fannie Hurst

Fannie Hurst Quote: “The creative writer is usually captive to his next book.”

23. “The creative writer is usually captive to his next book.”

— Fannie Hurst

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