American Author Quotes

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,

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

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

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

Have you ever watched a leaf leave a tree? It falls upward first, and then it drifts toward the ground, just as I find myself drifting towards you.

Propaganda is a weapon that the Confederacy wields best, and wields heaviest. It is their hammer. And when all you have is a hammer, then everything looks like a nail.

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

Replace ropes with bullets. Hound dogs with German shepherds. A gray uniform with a bulletproof vest. Nothing is new.

Jesmyn Ward
Jesmyn Ward
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.'

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

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.

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

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

There was no point in doing art if you were going to be second-rate.

Men want a challenge, but they want a challenge they can win.

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

Statistics show that you have nothing to worry about.

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

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

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

Only once you destroy who you think you are can you embrace who you truly are

People often choose to misunderstand if it makes life more interesting.