American Author Quotes

That was the problem with getting used to people - you had to miss them when they were gone.

We are striving to forge our union with purpose.
To compose a country committed to all cultures, colors, characters, and conditions of man.

Amanda Gorman
Amanda Gorman
I'm always looking for the monster. Not even just in horror. I want them in everything. Just give me the monsters. Logical conclusions don't satisfy. Monsters satisfy, absolutely.

Victor LaValle
Victor LaValle
Her eyes sprang fully opened, and she beheld Howard's rickety bookshelves. P-h-y-s-i-c-s. A coil of radiant energy shot from the word, flooding into her skull like a sunbeam passing through glass. She closed her eyes. Her dendrites danced. Her synapses sparkeld.

If you want to understand any woman you must first ask about her mother and then listen carefully.

Anita Diamant
Anita Diamant
Mostly though, they waited. For the mail. For the news. For the bells. For breakfast and lunch and dinner. For one day to be over and the next day to begin.

Me? What am I? Nothing. The legs on which dinner comes to the table, the arms by which cocktails enter the living room, the hands that drive cars. I am the eyes that see nothing, the ears that don't hear. I'm invisible too. They look and don't see me. When they move, I have to guess their direction and get myself out of the way.

The cost for the recipient of God's grace is nothing, and no price could be higher for arrogant people to pay.

Anglo-Saxon barbarians. Arthur should have been made a Knight

One's words must glide across the page like a swan moving across the waters. One must be conscious of the movement without a thought of what is causing it to move.

As Auntie Mame:
Life is a banquet, and some poor suckers are starving to death.

In what else, pray, does man differ from the other animals except in that he is used by words?

James Branch Cabell
James Branch Cabell
Do you know what it is to be a man violently in love? To live for a woman's smiles and laughter, to hunger for her touch until life itself seems impossible without it, to desire her as you desire to breathe?

It was like love, he thought, this crumbling chapel: it has been complicated, and therefore perfected, by what time had done to it

The force with which he wanted it both ways made him grit his teeth. What kind of fool wanted it only one way?

What is it with folks always talking about where they're from? You could grow up in a muddy ditch, but if it's your muddy ditch, then it's gotta be the swellest muddy ditch ever.

Some men were nothing but overgrown boys who never got over the "fun" of teasing girls, just to get noticed

Men and women will forever make gods of others rather than see the god in themselves.

By every mortal standard, the worst faeries in the world were those in the Dark Court. They fed on the baser emotions; they engaged in activities that the other-also amoral-faery courts repudiated. They were also the only ones she truly trusted or understood.

Listen, if you choose to believe nothing else that transpires here, believe this: your body does not have a soul; your soul has a body, and souls never, ever die.

Having bowed to the inevitability of the dictum that we must eat to live, we should ignore it and live to eat...

Even if a thing is not beautiful, it is living art if it is someone's experience. To do a thing as nobody else could have done it—if you can wrench that out of yourself—is style.

You can't tell people how to feel when they read your work. You can only hope to connect.

Dan Chaon
Dan Chaon
Maybe you've got the patience to work out some complicated, long-term, ironic way to get back at the people who've wronged you, but that's you.

Victory is freedom of mind and body.' I believe that is true. I would go further and say that victory is freedom of mind from body. Separation from the thing that imprisons us. Flight. Perhaps freedom from life itself. That is victory. Life is brutal. It is like this whip and these ropes. It hurts. It scars. But we must take it.