Charlotte Brontë

Quotes

• “But this I know; the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master--something t...”
• “To you I am neither man nor woman. I come before you as an author only. It is the sole standard by which you have a righ...”
• “The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.”
• “Writers cannot choose their own mood: with them it is not always hide-tide, nor --thank Heaven!--always Storm.”
• “I knew you would do me good in some way, at some time--I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld you.”
• “Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.”
• “I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.”
• “I write because I cannot NOT write.”