American Author Quotes

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

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

Robert Wilson (director)

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.

Love is the answer, that everyone seeks...Love is the language, that every heart speaks.

Helen Steiner Rice

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

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.

God comes to each of us in the form we can best perceive Him. To you, just now, He was a heron. To someone else, He might come as a flower or even a breeze.

Sleep on your writing; take a walk over it; scrutinize it of a morning; review it of an afternoon; digest it after a meal; let it sleep in your drawer a twelvemonth; never venture a whisper about it to your friend, if he be an author especially.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Statistics show that you have nothing to worry about.

Theodore Cogswell

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

Carlene Thompson

Sweet Genevieve,
The days may come, the days may go,
But still the hands of memory weave The blissful dreams of long ago.

George Cooper (poet)

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

Dennis L. McKiernan

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

David Lindsay-Abaire

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

Laurence Stallings

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

Sarah Smith (writer)

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

Tennessee Williams

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.

Because systems of mass communication can communicate only officially acceptable levels of reality, no one can know the extent of the secret unconscious life. No one in America can know what will happen. No one is in real control.

Loaded with note cards for research papers that I was hopelessly behind on, I'd enter the Public Library only to end up wandering around lost, wasting the day.

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.

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

Hallie Erminie Rives

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

Olen Steinhauer

I think it must be lonely to be God.
Nobody loves a master. No.

Gwendolyn Brooks

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

How sad they are, the promises we never return to. They stay in our mouths, roughen the tongue, lead lives of their own.

Jane Hirshfield