American Author Quotes

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

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...

David Lindsay-Abaire

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

Chris Bachelder

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

Tennessee Williams

Statistics show that you have nothing to worry about.

Theodore Cogswell

Peaches grow wild, and pigs can live in clover;
A barrel of salted herrings lasts a year;
The spring begins before the winter's over.

Tell me thou all pervading mind,
When I this life forsake,
Must ev'ry tender tie unbind,
Each sweet connection break?

Ann Eliza Bleecker

The soul of the river had entered my soul, And the gathered power of my soul was moving So swiftly, it seemed to be at rest Under cities of cloud and under Spheres of silver and changing worlds Until I saw a flash of trumpets Above the battlements over Time!

Edgar Lee Masters

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.

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.

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

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

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

Gwendolyn Brooks

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

Hallie Erminie Rives

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,

Grandfather / advised me: / Learn a trade / I learned / to sit at desk / and condense / No layoff / from this / condensery.

Lorine Niedecker

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)

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.

I read, for the first time, of the Carolina Parakeet-a North American parakeet whose green, yellow and reddish-orange plumage appeared vivacious and altogether quite wonderful. As stunning as I found the hawk-chased conures, this bird astounded me even more. That the Carolina Parakeet was extinct simply added to my amazement.

Christopher Cokinos

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

Ronald Sukenick

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

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

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