Mary Alice Monroe famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Privacy is something that we maintain for the good of ourselves and others. Secrecy we keep to separate ourselves from others, even those we love.
-- Mary Alice Monroe

#Privacy #Secrecy
To me, the glass is half-empty some days and half-full on others. Sometimes it's bone-dry. Or overflowing.
-- Mary Alice Monroe

#Glasses #Half #Dry
I always begin with a source of inspiration that comes from nature. The story comes from my research, volunteering, and meeting the people involved in that story world. I am an intuitive writer and an image, sound, experience can all inspire a scene or a plot twist!
-- Mary Alice Monroe

#Inspiration #People #Volunteer
As I began researching butterflies, however, the monarch stood out among all of them. It's the only butterfly - the only insect - that migrates like a bird or a whale!
-- Mary Alice Monroe

#Butterfly #Whales #Bird
The theme that runs through all my books is connection. Connection - physical and non-physical - with other humans, and connection with nature are necessary for our well-being. Without it, we are depressed, lonely, and fail to thrive.
-- Mary Alice Monroe

#Running #Lonely #Book
Southern writing is regional: it includes dialect, settings, and cultural traditions from that region. However the themes and story conflicts are universal. My challenge is to write regional fiction without falling into the trap of nostalgia. There are important issues facing the south that I believe should be raised in the stories to make them contemporary, believable, and relevant to today's readers.
-- Mary Alice Monroe

#Fall #Believe #Writing

Privacy isn't dead, although it is fashionable for digerati to say so.
Privacy is one of the biggest problems in this new electronic age.
At the end of the whole day of working with people you want some privacy.
Privacy is a fundamental human need
We see with what keenness and zeal the frivolous business of Freemasons is conducted, by persons knit together by the secrecy of their union.
Once the Xerox copier was invented, private diplomacy died. There's no such thing as secrecy. It's just a question of whether it's leaked or revealed openly.
Be thine own privy counsellor.
There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.
Secrecy is thus, so to speak, a transition stadium between being and not-being.
In such a case secrecy must be absolute to be effective, and although mere vague curiosity induced many persons of my intimate acquaintance to ask to be allowed to just go in and have a peep, I never admitted anyone.

Mary Alice Monroe famous quotes

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