American Author Quotes

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

Whitney Gaskell

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

Hallie Erminie Rives

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

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

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.

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

Sarah Smith (writer)

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

David Lindsay-Abaire

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

Olen Steinhauer

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

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

Tennessee Williams

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

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

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

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.

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

Chris Bachelder

My love for you won't stop with my leaving. Come an evening over the years, when you step outside your door and hear the wind blowing through the cottonwoods, that'll be me, thinking of you, whispering your name, and loving you.

Elizabeth Lambert

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.

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,

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

Laurence Stallings

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

Carlene Thompson

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.

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

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

Ronald Sukenick

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

Lauren Barnholdt