35 quotes found
Writer · American
American writer
“Through the trees there was a motion, a person walking on the road. Isabelle watched as the girl - it was Amy - moving slowly and with her head down, came up the gravel driveway. The sight of her p...”
“To listen to a person is not passive.”
“You just stood up to your mother.... I should think now you could take on the world.”
“She had spells of manic loquaciousness, followed by days of silence.”
“This is a story about a mother who loves her daughter. Imperfectly. Because we all love imperfectly. But if you find yourself protecting anyone as you write this piece, remember this: You're not do...”
“Or maybe, he thought, returning to the boxes, it was part of being Catholic--you were made to feel guilty about everything”
“Jim. If you have any other outside events, dont confess them. Thats my advice, okay?What am I going to do, Bob? I have no family.You have family, Bob said. You have a wife who hates you. Kids who a...”
“I don't especially like to travel, not the way many people do. I know many people that love to go to far-off and different places, and I've never been like that. I seem to get homesick as quickly a...”
“I've always been tremendously interested in criminal law. It goes to a deep interest I have in prisons and the criminal element, and what we do as a society with it. I've always been touched by the...”
“Inside the music like this, she understood many things. She understood that Simon was a disappointed man if he needed, at this age, to tell her he had pitied her for years. She understood that as h...”
“I never wrote him. I never saw him again. He was just gone, this dear, dear man, this friend of my soul in the hospital so long ago, disappeared. This is a New York story too.”
“But early on I saw this: You are wasting time by suffering twice. I mention this only to show how many things the mind cannot will itself to do, even if it wants to.”
“She pictured a dandelion gone by, the white, almost airless pieces of her family scattered so far.”
“What young people didn’t know, she thought, lying down beside this man, his hand on her shoulder, her arm; oh, what young people did not know. They did not know that lumpy, aged, and wrinkled bodie...”
“Jim. If you have any other outside events, don’t confess them. That’s my advice, okay?”“What am I going to do, Bob? I have no family.”“You have family,” Bob said. “You have a wife who hates you. Ki...”
