Nancy Hale Quotes

United States, Novelist
May 6, 1908 – September, 24, 1988.

Nancy Hale was an American novelist and short-story writer. She received the O. Henry Award, a Benjamin Franklin magazine award, and the Henry H. Bellaman Foundation Award for fiction.

Also known as Short Story Writer

The dark has to be contained in the light or the light will be contained in the dark.

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- Light
- Dark
- Contained
If civilization ever achieves a higher standard of what constitutes normality, it will have been the neurotic who led the way.

Nancy Hale

Creation lives alone in a small temple. Only one may worship at a time.

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- Creation
- Worship
- Temple
What man can imagine he may one day achieve.

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- Man
- Imagine
- Achieve
One must find one's natural home, not try to construct it.

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- Home
- Find
- Construct
Imagination is new reality in the process of being created. It represents the part of the existing order that can still grow.

Nancy Hale
Malicious gossip takes the place of creation in non-creative lives.

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- Place
- Creation
- Gossip
The more specific you are, the more universal you are.

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- More
- Universal
- Specific

In order to go anywhere it is necessary to be where one is.

Nancy Hale
- To Be
- To Go
- Anywhere
The dead hand of research lies heavy on too many novels.

Nancy Hale
- Hand
- Research
- Novels
Never give away your work. People don’t value what they don’t have to pay for.

Nancy Hale
- Work
- Value
- Pay