American Author Quotes

There's no sense to being Irish unless you know the world's going to break your heart.

We have often had this particular exchange about climate and landscape and why we both feel so lonely here uprooted. It was what each of us had wanted of course.Besides wanting to experience a place we hated, we wanted to be insomniacs and loners, losers and drop-outs. To know the sky was the only location of meaning and joy left to us.

The best hiding spots are not the most hidden; they're merely the least searched.

You will not fight your battles on my body anymore.

Lynn Nottage
Lynn Nottage
The abyss is full of reality, the abyss experiences itself, the abyss is alive.

I don't feel that catharsis in a play necessarily takes place during the course of a play. Often it should take place afterward.

Edward Albee
Edward Albee
To misunderstand the nature and threat of evil is to risk being blindsided by it.

You don't learn to write by going through a series of preset writing exercises. You learn to write by grappling with a real subject that truly matters to you.

Ralph Fletcher
Ralph Fletcher
How strange it was that a dream, once realized, could quickly turn mundane.

As a writer, I have always considered it my job to describe the world as I know it; to struggle toward whatever portion of the truth is available to me,

Poetry is road maintenance for a fragmented world which seeks to be kept together. It's been an integral activity for a long time.

One of the frustrations of having a mind trained to think and consider possibilities was that it couldn't simply be stopped once engaged.

In this life you sometimes have to choose between pleasing God and pleasing man. - In the long run, it's better to please God - he's more apt to remember.

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
It's responsible for the sloppiness and imprecision of the War on Terror, for example. It's responsible for taking people's tax dollars and spending the country into debt on useless wars and pointless pork projects to buy votes. It's responsible for bailing out the banks instead of standing up for the people the banks cheated. It's responsible for plenty,

Detach the writer from the milieu where he has experienced his greatest sense of belonging, and you have created a discontinuity within his personality, a short circuit in his identity. The result is his originality, his creativity comes to an end. He becomes the one-book novelist or the one-trilogy writer.

Henry Roth
Henry Roth
The view from the window, particularly if you enjoy neon, is extraordinary.

Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.

Summertime
And the livin' is easy,
Fish are jumpin',
And the cotton is high.
Oh, your daddy's rich,
And your ma is good lookin';
So hush, little baby,
Don' yo' cry.

I've almost come to feel that it doesn't make much difference what you believe in — the thing that's important is a state of belief. It's much better to believe in nonsense than in nothing.

Neither awake nor in a dark dream are perilous blades just as they seem.

Statistics show that you have nothing to worry about.

under a soprano sky, a woman sings,
lovely as chandeliers.

Sonia Sanchez
Sonia Sanchez
Don't you think there is always something unspoken between two people?

Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams
To say in print what she thinks is the last thing the woman novelist or journalist is so rash as to attempt…Her publishers are not women.

Elizabeth Robins
Elizabeth Robins