figures are clear and open, they hold nothing hidden, no secret they will not tell.

- Mabel Seeley

The only time I'm pleased with myself is when I'm exhausted and shaking from having written too much.

- Mabel Seeley

Imagination is so much harder to face than reality.

- Mabel Seeley

There's less skill and more plain hard work to writing than anyone except a writer thinks.

- Mabel Seeley

Pity is something only weakness wants.

- Mabel Seeley

People who know their worth can live austerely; it's the people nagged by the gnawing knowledge of their own cheapness who have that eternal necessit…

- Mabel Seeley