Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Everything you're sure is right can be wrong in another place.
I don't understand how any good art could fail to be political.
War so conspicuously benefits rich men and kills the poor ones.
it's the thing you fear most that walks beside you all the time.
Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need
No matter what kind of night you're having, morning always wins.
I thought: this is how life is, ridiculous beyond comprehension.
My worst nightmare is being stuck somewhere with nothing to read.
Lies are infinite in number, and the truth so small and singular.
Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off.
If you never stepped on anybody's toes, you never been for a walk.
Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
Honk if you love Jesus, text while driving if you want to meet up.
Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
Science doesn't tell us what we should do. It only tells us what is.
I know I have to write about the things that keep me awake at night.
What I want is so simple I almost can't say it: elementary kindness.
Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.
The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don't know.
The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do.
This story about good food begins in a quick-stop convenience market.
I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I'd written.
Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.
The longer you live, the more likely you are to have something to say.
It's tough to break yourself as news to a town that already knows you.
There's always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline.
a meaningless phrase repeated again and again begins to resemble truth.
I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
Arterial-plaque specials that save minutes now can cost years, later on.
Don't wait for the muse. She has a lousy work ethic. Writers just write.
No reporter worth his buttons will let the facts intrude on a good story.
Sometimes I prayed for Baby Jesus to make me good, but Baby Jesus didn't.
It's a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!
The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don't know.
It's the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.
Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.
...our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.
It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.
It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
I had decided early on that if I couldn’t dress elegant, I’d dress memorable.
The last generation's worst fears became the next one's B-grade entertainment.
Poor Congo, barefoot bride of men who took her jewels and promised the Kingdom.
A writer's occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business.
Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!
She kept swimming out into life because she hadn't yet found a rock to stand on.
If you're standing in the manure pile, it's somebody's job to mention the stink.