Best 15 quotes of Carol Anshaw on MyQuotes

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 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.

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

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

I never write in a linear way. And I tell students not to. You can only know so much about a book when you first start.

I think we are all coming to realize the web in all its manifestations is a sucking time hole.

It's easy now, now that it's a story. When you were going through it, it was life. Always much harder to get the plot line on.

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

When I started, there was more of a cultural assumption that many readers would find gay characters irrelevant or repugnant.

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.

But they were not friends. They were here to keep each other from spinning off alone into the dark matter of the universe.

He swam against the hard current of the class bores - there were three - who could relate every incident in the book to something in their own lives.

...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?

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

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.