American Author Quotes

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

Souls bound together can't be forever torn apart by distance and neither by death.

Patti Callahan Henry

All my life, I knew, all my life I would be haunted by words from Shakespeare.

Sarah Smith (writer)

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

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

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

Hallie Erminie Rives

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

Chris Bachelder

The rules of marriage were simple and easy to follow: faithfulness, patience, compromise. But there were no rules to divorce, or if there were, he had not yet discovered them.

You will not fight your battles on my body anymore.

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

Tennessee Williams

Sometimes people do things that are complicated. For complicated reasons.

Lauren Barnholdt

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

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.

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

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

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.'

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.

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

Olen Steinhauer

So even the most unlikely events have to take place somewhere...

David Lindsay-Abaire

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)

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

Joel C. Rosenberg

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

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

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.

The only animal capable of giving man a fair fight is man. Actually, among ourselves, we fight unfairest of all, and the more we practice, the nastier we get.

Robert Buettner