American Author Quotes

You didn't realize what was passing you by until you slowed down a little bit to get a better look.

Karin Slaughter

A book exists at the intersection of the author's subconscious and the reader's response.

It is an easy thing to call names; any fool is equal to that... and the weapon of vituperation is generally used by those who lack brains for argument or are upon the wrong side.

Once, there was a girl who vowed she would save everyone in the world, but forgot herself.

Popular kids are just a powerful union of needy, insecure losers.

Gone is gone. I never miss anything or anyone because it all becomes a lovely memory. I guard my memories and love them, but I don't get in them and lie down.

Louise Fitzhugh

Life is now... this day, this hour...and is probably the only experience of the kind one is to have.

Charles Macomb Flandrau

I have tried to be righteous all my life. Yet I have never been content.

I'm scared," he says."I know," says the nurse."I want you all to go to Hell.""That's natural.

Neal Shusterman

If we know that we are now at the point where we have always wanted to be, we will be there... because we are never there but always here, now!

I shift, an infinitesimal movement, towards him. It is like the leap from a waterfall. I do not know, until then, what I am going to do.

Madeline Miller

[That] is the essence of poker: making tricky decisions based on incomplete information.

You get to Alcatraz by being the worst of the worst. Unless you're me. I came here because my mother said I had to.

Gennifer Choldenko

Take care not to listen to anyone
who tells you what you can
and can't be in life.

Tragedy isn't an easy thing to kill. It takes more than a turtle. Tragedy must be destroyed by someone willing to be swallowed by it, willing to be broken, torn out of the flesh, but able to return to it. Someone must be able to shatter the tragic from within and exit into comedy, able to rip a hole so wide that a train of souls, a parade, could follow after, banging drums and throwing candy as they strolled into the sun.

The most fundamental pride in the world is the pride you have in owning a little piece of land! You've got to live on your own land, walk on it, work in its dirt, to know the final pride of being free.

Janice Holt Giles

Fate isn't some middle-aged man with a squint who won't recognize you if you change your clothes.

I know already that I can survive it. That's the sorrow of it all. That whatever comes I'll survive it. I mean, even if the worst were to be true, would it really be the worst?

Conversation succeeds conversation, Until there's nothing left to talk about Except truth, the perennial monologue, And no talker to dispute it but itself.

I found her lying on her stomach, her hind legs stretched out straight, and her front feet folded back under her chest. She had laid her head on his grave. I saw the trail where she had dragged herself through the leaves. The way she lay there, I thought she was alive. I called her name. She made no movement. With the last ounce of strength in her body, she had dragged herself to the grave of Old Dan.

Enough has been unrolled to demand your sympathy and aid.

Harriet E. Wilson

Many companies are not tech companies, they are brands.

Men, being conditioned badly, are always feeling nooses closing around their necks, even dumpy boors no girl would take on a bet.

If you ever managed to make me cry, my tears would sear your face.

Jonathan Littell

Free time is an illusion. It's what you get when you die and the gods reward you for a life spent working from dawn until midnight.