American Author Quotes

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

We get mad, sure! Like ice an' snow an' thunder an' lightning storm, but they don't hurt the wheat down in the ground any.' Mom picked up her whitewash brush and slapped it against the rough boards. 'Yolochka, you don't know how love is yet.'

Hollywood – a place where the inmates are in charge of the asylum.

Laurence Stallings

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

Still, not much of a reason to live, is it? The fear of being punished for killing yourself.

We can only do what is possible for us to do. But still it is good to know what the impossible is.

María Irene Fornés

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

Mel Odom (author)

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

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

The big picture is that there is no big picture.
That's why we keep painting it.

Ronald Sukenick

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

Maggie Shipstead

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.

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

Dennis L. McKiernan

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.

Margaret Ayer Barnes

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

Tennessee Williams

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

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.

You lose everything you love in the order in which you love it.

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

The moon drowsed between the trees like a great yellow moth.

Hallie Erminie Rives

You will not fight your battles on my body anymore.

When there's more sick ones than well ones, by golly the sick ones will lock the well ones up.

People are all the same. We need a personal reason to get our asses off the couch.

Olen Steinhauer

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

Those who do not know how to see the precious things in life will never be happy.