American Author Quotes

Through my Invisible new veil Of finity, I see November's world — Low scud, slick street, three giggling girls — As, oddly, not as sombre As December, But as green As anything: As spring.

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

David Lindsay-Abaire

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

Joel C. Rosenberg

Painters are so bitchy. Magritte told Miró that Kandinsky had feet of Klee.

Told to Ned Sherrin

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

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

Gwendolyn Brooks

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

I say to my breath once again, little breath come from in front of me, go away behind me, row me quietly now, as far as you can, for I am an abyss that I am trying to cross.

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

A feller's glad to be a friend, Out fishin'. A helpin' hand he'll always lend, Out fishin' The brotherhood of rod and line An' sky an' stream is always fine; Men come real close to God's design, Out fishin'. A feller isn't plotting schemes, Out fishin'. He's only busy with his dreams, Out fishin' His livery is a coat of tan; His creed, to do the best he can; A feller's always mostly man Out fishin'.

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

Chris Bachelder

We are beautiful people
with african imaginations
full of masks and dances and swelling chants
with african eyes, and noses, and arms,
though we sprawl in gray chains in a place
full of winters when what we want is sun.

Imamu Amiri Baraka

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.

It has taken a great deal of energy, which has not been so difficult to summon as the necessary patience to wait, simply wait much of the time - until my instincts assured me that I had assembled my materials in proper order for a final welding into their natural form.

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

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

My poetry has become the way of my giving out what music is within me.

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

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

Carlene Thompson