Anne Rivers Siddons quotes

Somebody said writing is easy, you just sit down at your typewriter and open a vein. It depends on the book. Some, I have to do quite a lot of research, which I like. Others are much closer to me. (Anne Rivers Siddons)

I don't think you ever think of a big city as sweet or community, but there are cities that I think of as charming and particular and interesting cities. I live in one now, Charleston.

Anne Rivers Siddons

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

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

It's unimaginable to me that I wouldn't write, but it's very imaginable that I won't write for a little while.

Anne Rivers Siddons

Didn't I say I'd always be your same stars? If you get to missing me, just look up.

Anne Rivers Siddons

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 and fragrant richness.

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 it.

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 occur......It frequently happens that the seasons of the greatest change are the times that feel the most tranquil, the most suspended, the most...timeless. (Anne Rivers Siddons)

Laughter nibbled at my lips like tiny fish in warm water.

Anne Rivers Siddons

Anne Rivers Siddons

Occupation: American Novelist
Born: January 9, 1936
Died: September 11, 2019
Quotes count: 12

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