“I am a recluse at present & do nothing but write & read & read & write”
Source: The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: Volume 1: 1903-1917
Katherine Mansfield: 43 citations0 J'aime
Katherine Mansfield: Citations en anglais
Journal entry (July 1922), published in The Journal of Katherine Mansfield (1927)
“To be alive and to be a ‘writer’ is enough.”
Source: Journal of Katherine Mansfield
“To acknowledge the presence of fear is to give birth to failure.”
Journal entry, "Reading Notes" (1905-1907), quoted in Ruth Elvish Mantz and John Middleton Murry, The Life of Katherine Mansfield (1933), p. 212
“Some couples go over their budgets very carefully every month. Others just go over them.”
Sally Poplin, as quoted in An Uncommon Scold (1989) by Abby Adams, p. 170
Misattributed
“Once we have learned to read, the meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.”
Anthony Marcel, Ph.D, Cambridge University, quoted in Speed Reading - Harness Your Computer's Power to Triple Your Reading Speed (2005) by Louis Crowe, p. 18
Misattributed
Letter to John Middleton Murry (11 October 1922), from The Letters of Katherine Mansfield, edited by J. Middleton Murry (1928)
“To work — to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.”
Letter to Bertrand Russell (7 December 1916), from The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield, vol. I
Journal entry (14 October 1922), published in The Journal of Katherine Mansfield (1927)
“I'm a writer first & a woman after.”
Letter to John Middleton Murry (3 December 1920), from The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield, vol. IV
Journal entry (14 October 1922), published in The Journal of Katherine Mansfield (1927)
"Love and Mushrooms," journal entry (1917), published in More Extracts from a Journal, ed. J. Middleton Murry, in The Adelphi (1923), p. 1068
