Author: Mary Augusta Ward

Quotes

In this choice, as I look back over more than half a century, I can only follow - and trust - the same sort of instinct that one follows in the art of fiction.

In this choice, as I look back over more than half a century, I can only follow - and trust - the same sort of instinct that one follows in the art of fiction.

- Mary Augusta Ward

For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.

For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.

- Mary Augusta Ward

A life spent largely among books, and in the exercise of a literary profession, has very obvious drawbacks, as a subject-matter, when one comes to write about it.

A life spent largely among books, and in the exercise of a literary profession, has very obvious drawbacks, as a subject-matter, when one comes to write about it.

- Mary Augusta Ward

I cannot hope that what I have to say will be very interesting to many.

I cannot hope that what I have to say will be very interesting to many.

- Mary Augusta Ward

It became plain very soon after our marriage that ours was to be a literary partnership.

It became plain very soon after our marriage that ours was to be a literary partnership.

- Mary Augusta Ward

The answer, of course, in the mouth of a Christian teacher is that in Christianity alone is there both present joy and future hope.

The answer, of course, in the mouth of a Christian teacher is that in Christianity alone is there both present joy and future hope.

- Mary Augusta Ward

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