Carol Anshaw Quotes

I don't know where everything is going, but I'm pretty confident that people like books - the objects. So I'm going to go on that -they're not going to disappear.

She shared the curse of many artists - that praise beaded up and rolled off her while criticism stuck like glue, glue embedded with ground glass.

I have never been on the receiving end of a hate crime, or even a disparaging remark to my face.

Storming was one of her main modes of transportation." In reference to teenager Heather in "Carry The One

She looked around the table and saw each of them as they looked that night ... All of them in their last hours of making mistakes with small prices.

Aimee Parkison offers a distinct new voice to contemporary fiction. Her seductive stories explore childhood as a realm of sorrows, and reveal the afflictions of adults who emerge from this private geography.

I'm never sure who I'm writing for, or who's reading me, but I definitely see myself in conspiracy with my readers.

You come from the city and think small means simple when all it realy means is complicated in a smaller place. Which sometimes adds to the complication.

Romance no longer looked like so much fun, more like a repetitive stress injury ...

You are a speck. This whole life that seems so huge to us? asall of human enterprise even? Fuck us. We are so tiny," as he said "so tiny" he bent over until his forehead was nearly touching the tabletop, as if he was homing in on the speck that was them. "I can't stand to think we only add up to a blip. I need to think we're more than that." "Deal with it." he looked around as if someone had called his name.

Religions all have the same timeline ... First the people feel the need to worship something. The sun or the giant corn of ear. That's the first thing. Then the guys say okay, now that we've got the giant corn thing going, how can we use it to oppress women?