Occupation: Author Birth: October 26, 1945 Death: March 4, 2016
Know this. I think you could be special if you only thought there was anything special about yourself..
Some things don’t mix. Some things don’t mix at all, but sometimes in life you have to take the risk..
I wanted to become the seeker, the aroused and passionate explorer, and it was better to go at it knowing nothing at all, always choosing the unmarke….
He was one of those rare men who are capable of being fully in love only once in their lives..
Laughter is the only strategy that has ever worked at all for me when my world is falling apart..
The water was pure and cold and came out of the Apennines tasting like snow melted in the hands of a pretty girl..
A family is one of nature's solubles; it dissolves in time like salt in rainwater..
A story is a living thing, it moves and shifts..
I'd be a conservative if I'd never met any. They're selfish, mean-spirited, egocentric, reactionary, and boring..
Except for memory, time would have no meaning at all..
Here's what I love: when a great writer turns me into a Jew from Chicago, a lesbian out of South Carolina, or a black woman moving into a subway entr….
Good writing ... involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into lucid form, then forcing them into the tight-fitting uniform of lan….
There are no ideas in the South, just barbecue..
The mind is an intricate mechanism that can be run on the fuels of both victory and defeatism..
She was one of those Southerners who knew from an early age that the South could never be more for them than a fragrant prison, administered by a col….
...when the words pour out of you just right, you understand that these sentences are all part of a river flowing out of your own distant, hidden ran….
Each divorce is the death of a small civilization..
I was trying to unravel the complicated trigonometry of the radical thought that silence could make up the greatest lie ever told..
My mother raised me to be a writer..
My soul found ease and rest in the companionship of books..
Writing poetry and reading books causes brain damage..