Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Sarah Orne Jewett (American Children’s Books Writer)

Sarah Orne Jewett (1849–1909,) fully Theodora Sarah Orne Jewett, was an American novelist and short-story writer. Her precise, realistic, subdued portraits of ordinary New England people and her sense of community have won her an enduring reputation.

Born in South Berwick, Maine, Jewett grew up in a prominent family in South Berwick, Maine, and began writing at an early age, publishing a series of sketches, Deephaven (1877.) These were followed by a more structured fiction, The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896,) which developed her interest in the psychology of small, remote communities. She also wrote romantic novels and stories based on the provincial life of her home state, such as A Country Doctor (1884) and A White Heron (1886) and a historical novel, The Tory Lover (1901.)

In addition to her writing, Jewett advocated for women’s education and helped to found the Berwick Academy for Girls. She was the first president of Vassar College 1862–64. Her collected poems were published posthumously as Verses (1916.)

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Wrecked on the lee shore of age.
—Sarah Orne Jewett
Topics: Aging, Age

It does seem so pleasant to talk with an old acquaintance who knows what you know. I see so many new folks nowadays who seem to have neither past nor future. Conversation has got to have some root in the past, or else you have got to explain every remark you make, and it wears a person out.
—Sarah Orne Jewett
Topics: Historians, History

My dear father; my dear friend; the best and wisest man I ever knew, who taught me many lessons and showed me many things as we went together along the country by-ways.
—Sarah Orne Jewett
Topics: Fathers

Yes’m, old friends is always best, ‘less you can catch a new one that’s fit to make an old one out of.
—Sarah Orne Jewett
Topics: Friendship

The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper—whether little or great, it belongs to Literature.
—Sarah Orne Jewett
Topics: Literature, Books

Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.
—Sarah Orne Jewett
Topics: Tact, Manners

You must find your own quiet center of life, and write from that to the world.
—Sarah Orne Jewett
Topics: Writing

The growth of friendship might be a lifelong affair.
—Sarah Orne Jewett
Topics: Friendship

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