Margaret Mitchell Quotes


I can't make you understand because you don't know the meaning of fear. You have the heart of a lion and an utter lack of imagination and I envy you both of those qualities. You'll never mind facing realities and you'll never want to escape from them as I do.


Citations

Mitchell, Margaret. Gone with the Wind. Macmillan, 1936, p. 884.

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Margaret Mitchell
Margaret Mitchell
  • Born: November 8, 1900
  • Died: August 16, 1949
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Journalist, Novelist

Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell was an American novelist and journalist. Mitchell wrote only one novel, published during her lifetime, the American Civil War-era novel Gone with the Wind, for which she won the National Book Award for Most Distinguished Novel of 1936 and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1937. In recent years long after her death, a collection of Mitchell's girlhood writings and a novella she wrote as a teenager, titled Lost Laysen, have been published. A collection of newspaper articles written by Mitchell for The Atlanta Journal was republished in book form.