40 quotes found
Author · American · 1932
American author (born 1932)
“Even a prince may be a fool”
“Hope ... is not a feeling it is something you do.”
“life ain't supposed to be nothing, 'cept maybe tough”
“I was behaving, just like I promised, but fate intervened.”
“The name we give to something shapes our attitude toward it.”
“Everybody gets scared sometimes, May Belle. You don't have to be ashamed.”
“Sometimes it seemed to him that his life was delicate as a dandelion. One little puff from any direction, and it was blown to bits.”
“You think it's so great to die and make everyone cry and carry on. Well it ain't.”
“Crazy people who are judged to be harmless are allowed an enormous amount of freedom ordinary people are denied”
“I love revisionsWe cant go back and revise our lives, but being allowed to go back and revise what we have written comes closest.”
“Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography,but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility.”
“The growth of the imagination demands windows-windows through which we can look out at the world and windows through which we can look into ourselves. The old stories were windows in just this way.”
“My heart is heavy, she thought. Its not just a saying. It is what isheavy, a great stone lodged in my breast, pressing down my whole being. How can I even stand straight and look out upon the world...”
“You never know ahead of time what something's really going to be like.”
“When my husband died, people kept telling me not to cry. People kept trying to help me to forget. But I didn't want to forget... So I realize, that if it's hard for me, how much harder it must be f...”
“All of us can think of a book... that we hope none of our children or any other children have taken off the shelf. But if I have the right to remove that book from the shelf - that work I abhor - t...”
“The wonderful thing about books is that they allow us to enter imaginatively into someone elses life. And when we do that, we learn to sympathize with other people. But the real surprise is that we...”
“I have been mocked by beauty, too. But it was the beauty which cost me nothing that in the end turned upon me.”
“Church always seemed the same. Jess could tune it out the same way he tuned out school, with his body standing up and sitting down in unison with the rest of the congregation but his mind numb and ...”
“On Decoration Day, while everyone else in town was at the cemetery decorating the graves of our Glorious War Dead, Willie Beaner and me, Robert Burns Hewitt, took Mabel Cramm's bloomers and run the...”
“Many people are angry when they make a mistake, but very few people have the sense to be sorry.”
“It's crazy isn't it?" She shook her head. "You have to believe it, but you hate it. I don't have to believe it, and I think it's beautiful." She shook her head again. "It's crazy.”
“She wasn't scared of going deep, deep down in a world of no air and little light”
