Anita Shreve
Anita Shreve
Anita Shreveis an American writer. The daughter of an airline pilot and a homemaker, she graduated from Dedham High School in Massachusetts, attended Tufts University and began writing while working as a high school teacher in Reading, MA. One of her first published stories, Past the Island, Drifting,was awarded an O. Henry Prize in 1976...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
CountryUnited States of America
till written
I start writing at 7.30 A.M. and write till noon. I've never written a single word after 5.00 P.M.
dance ice might
If you're skating on thin ice, you might as well dance.
night love-is thinking
I learned that night that love is never as ferocious as when you think it is going to leave you. We are not always allowed this knowledge, and so our love sometimes becomes retrospective.
party car looks
The things that don't happen to us that we'll never know didn't happen to us. The nonstories. The extra minute to find the briefcase that makes you late to the spot where a tractor trailer mauled another car instead of yours. The woman you didn't meet because she couldn't get a taxi to the party you had to leave early from. All of life is a series of nonstories if you look at it that way. We just don't know what they are.
love-is people ordinary
love is ... something extraordinary that happens to ordinary people.
drinking feelings body
I guess that's the point of drinking, to take all the feelings and thoughts and morals away until you are just a body doing what a body will do.
wonder behave ifs
I wonder this: If you take a woman and push her to the edge, how will she behave?
betrayal character love-is
Love and marriage are wonderful arenas in which to place a character. We are most likely to risk our morals and beliefs while in love. Betrayal gives tremendous insights into a character as well.
daughter moving giving
THE HERETIC'S DAUGHTER is raw, honest and completely captivating. Kathleen Kent takes what would seem to be a familiar subject and gives it a fresh, new perspective-moving us through a wrenching gamut of emotions as she does so. A searing look at one of the worst periods in our history.
persons knows
But how do you ever know that you know a person?
loss men thinking
Sydney discovers that she minds the loss of her mourning. When she grieved, she felt herself to be intimately connected to Daniel. But with each passing day, he floats away from her. When she thinks about him now, it is more as a lost possibility than as a man. She has forgotten his breath, his musculature.
causes action
A single action can cause a life to veer off in a direction it was never meant to go.
left
To leave, after all, was not the same as being left.
enough said ifs
I loved him," Muire said. "We were in love." As if that were enough.