I think every creative impulse that a working writer, or artist of any sort has, comes out of that dark old country where dreams come from.

- Anne Rivers Siddons

That sinuous southern life, that oblique and slow and complicated old beauty, that warm thick air and blood warm sea, that place of mists and languor…

- Anne Rivers Siddons

I think that sometimes the great changes in our lives, the ones that divide time, happen so deep down and silently that we don't even know when they …

- Anne Rivers Siddons

I think we all get too caught up in doing instead of just being sometimes.

- Anne Rivers Siddons

Life can only be kept by giving it away. But then it will bloom.

- Anne Rivers Siddons

Walter loves the sea, and I need it in some elemental way that I cannot even come close to verbalizing. I become dim and shriveled somehow at my very…

- Anne Rivers Siddons

Anger is its own excuse and its own reward.

- Anne Rivers Siddons

I don't know if I would do sequels. I almost feel like when I'm done with them, they're going to have to find their own way.

- Anne Rivers Siddons

Perhaps the most important thing we can ever do in our lives is find a way to keep the wild-both the wild inside and the wild outside us-and tap into…

- Anne Rivers Siddons