Top 22 Quotes by Katherine Mansfield

Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all.

Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.

The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties.

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

Would you not like to try all sorts of lives - one is so very small - but that is the satisfaction of writing - one can impersonate so many people.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.