Kathleen Norris Quotes

“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.”

“Life is easier than you'd think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable. ”

“A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.”

“Prayer is not asking for what you think you want, but asking to be changed in ways you can't imagine.”

“I wonder if children don't begin to reject both poetry and religion for similar reasons, because the way both are taught takes the life out of them.”

“When I was a child, it was a matter of pride that I could plow through a Nancy Drew story in one afternoon, and begin another in the evening…. I was probably trying to impress the librarians who kept me supplied with books.”

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

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

“There are men I could spend eternity with. but not this life. ”