Born on this day – Mabel Seeley:

 

Mabel Seeley

Writer

March 25, 1903 – June 9, 1991

Credits:

Eleven Came Back (1943); The Beckoning Door (1950); The Chuckling Fingers (1941); The Crying Sisters (1939); The Listening House (1938); The Stranger Beside Me (1951); The Whispering Cup (1940); The Whistling Shadow (aka The Blonde with the Deadly Past) (1954); Women of Property (1947).

Mabel Seeley, on imagination:

 

Imagination is so much harder to face than reality.

– Mabel Seeley.

Mabel Seeley, on writing:

 

The only time I'm pleased with myself is when I'm exhausted and shaking from having written too much.
– Mabel Seeley.

Mabel Seeley, on writing:

There's less skill and more plain hard work to writing than anyone except a writer thinks.
- Mabel Seeley.