Sarah Orne Jewett Thinking Quotations

There's some herb that's good for everybody, except for them that thinks they're sick when they ain't.

I've found that people who look at things as they are, and not as they wish them to be, are the ones who succeed.

A story should be managed so that it should suggest interesting things to the reader instead of the author's doing all the thinking for him, and setting it before him in black and white.