Reputations are shaped not by facts but by prejudices.
BARBARA MERTZLoving someone condemns you to a lifetime of fear. You become painfully conscious of how fragile people are – bundles of brittle bones and vulnerable flesh, breeding grounds for billions of deadly germs and horrible diseases.
More Barbara Mertz Quotes
-
-
I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to – mostly the latter.
BARBARA MERTZ -
The opportunity to lecture had restored my good humor.
BARBARA MERTZ -
A lady cannot be blamed if a master criminal takes a fancy to her.
BARBARA MERTZ -
I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny.
BARBARA MERTZ -
Since I am not as stupid as my children believe I am, I had immediately realized this might be a ruse, but I was not at all averse to a confrontation. In fact, I had been hoping for some such thing.
BARBARA MERTZ -
People who relate what they believe to be new and startling information like to have such information received with exclamations of astonishment and admiration.
BARBARA MERTZ -
I can do a book in three months if I spend all day, seven days a week at it and, in fact, I work better that way.
BARBARA MERTZ -
Humor is an excellent method of keeping a tight rein on unproductive displays of emotion.
BARBARA MERTZ -
Writing is like a bird-watcher watching for birds: the stories are there: you just have to train yourself to look for them.
BARBARA MERTZ -
..he continues to cling to the forlorn hope that I will turn into one of those swooning females…and fling myself squeeling at him whenever anything happens. Like all men, he clings to his illusions.
BARBARA MERTZ -
Nothing looks as self-satisfied as a contented cat.
BARBARA MERTZ -
His masculinity was only too apparent
BARBARA MERTZ -
Ramses had always been fond of Helen, in his peculiar fashion, but if he had looked at me as he was looking at her, I would have sent for a constable.
BARBARA MERTZ -
Dogs can be made to feel guilty about anything, including the sins of their owners. Cats refuse to take the blame for anything – including their own sins.
BARBARA MERTZ -
A fondness for martyrdom, especially of the verbal variety, is common to the young.
BARBARA MERTZ






