American Author Quotes

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

Jonathan Littell

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

Neal Shusterman

I sincerely believe that there is a time in life for drifting. There is a time for sitting back and getting in touch with yourself. Some of our most interesting illuminations and ideas will come when we take time to reflect, time to kick back and cruise awhile.

You can't tell people how to feel when they read your work. You can only hope to connect.

Fashion is in ceaseless pursuit of things that are about to look familiar and in uneasy flight from things that have just become a bore.

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

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.

A smart woman would have shut up. Did I? Hell no. Intelligence is overrated anyway.

Seven minutes is all you get to make a positive first impression. In the first seven minutes of contact with your church, your first-time guests will know whether or not they are coming back. That's before a single worship song is sung and before a single word of the message is uttered.

Love always looks nice. I don't really know anyone who doesn't enjoy it when they see it. Anyone who doesn't, I don't really want to know them.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

I'm always looking for the monster. Not even just in horror. I want them in everything. Just give me the monsters. Logical conclusions don't satisfy. Monsters satisfy, absolutely.

As in so many cases of sexual abuse within the family, it is much more complicated than had it been done by a stranger.

Picking the right name for the baby is beset with difficulties.... whatever name you choose, the baby, some years hence, will hate it anyway, and decide to have his friends call him Slats or Rocky...

Robert Paul Smith

Generations should not be mingled for daily fare, she thought; they are really contemptuous of one another, and the strong individuals, whether they belong to the older or the younger, impose on the meek their creeds and opinions, and, if they are strong enough, brook no dissent.

Affection isn't so plentiful in this life that any of us can afford to reject it when it's offered, whatever its source.

Figuring out our gifts in life is part of our journey to becoming enlightened human beings.

I have to think it's possible to suffer a great wrong and walk away from it. To build a life of small, exquisitely important moments.

Cinda Williams Chima

The trouble with most people is they think there's only one right way to do anything.

Do you know what it is to be a man violently in love? To live for a woman's smiles and laughter, to hunger for her touch until life itself seems impossible without it, to desire her as you desire to breathe?

Abigail Reynolds

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.

The story you are about to read is a work of fiction. Nothing - and everything - about it is real.

It takes a fierce devotion to defend your artistic space, and eternal vigilance over it, because the needs of others will grow like vines in your little plot and claim it back for the jungle.

Judith Ortiz Cofer

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!

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

Librarian like Stewardess, Certified Public Accountant, Used Car Salesman is one of those occupations that people assume attract a certain deformed personality.

Elizabeth McCracken