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Kathleen Norris Quotes

d. 1966 United States

Kathleen Thompson Norris (July 16, 1880 – January 18, 1966) was a popular American novelist and newspaper columnist. She was one of the most widely read and highest paid women writers in the United States for nearly fifty years, from 1911 to 1959.

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Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.

Hands Full of Living (1931)

Home ought to be our clearing house, the place from which we go forth lessoned and disciplined, and ready for life.

Home (1928)

What is enough? Are there enough trees here? As always, it seems that, the more I can distinguish my true needs from my wants, the more of a shock it is to realize how little is enough.

I write what I would like to read – what I think other women would like to read. If what I write makes a woman in the Canadian mountains cry and she writes and tells me about it, especially if she says ‘I read it to Tom when he came in from work and he cried too,’ I feel I have succeeded.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Kathleen Norris (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.