Quotes by : Mary Stewart

Every time your work is read, you die several deaths for every word, and poetry is like being flayed....

Every man carries the seed of his own death, and you will not be more than a man. You will have everything;....

I had always been content to know that there was more in the living world than we could hope to understand.....

The essence of wisdom is to know when to be doing, and when it's useless even to try

By the time that adorable steak and I had become one flesh I could have taken on the whole Valmy clan....

...kissing me with a violence that was terrifying and yet, somehow, the summit of all my tenderest dreams.....

Time spent looking back in anger is time wasted

The gods do not visit you to remind you what you know already.

Yes, but the artist?" said Nigel almost fiercely. "He's different, you know he is. He's driven by some....

There are few men more superstitious than soldiers. They are, after all, the men who live closest to....