Sean Wilsey Quotes & Sayings

Writing is controlled substance. It acts with the least mediation and strongest effect. — Sean Wilsey

A memoir, at its heart, is written in order to figure out who you are. — Sean Wilsey

That's why she felt entitled to be filthy rich. It explains and excuses a lot. She didn't want money because money was power; she wanted it because she'd been poor, and money cures poverty. [ ... ] But beauty is like money from God. And Mom has always been beautiful. — Sean Wilsey

My parents created their own war. — Sean Wilsey

We are the bright new stars born of a screaming black hole, the nascent suns burst from the darkness, from the grasping void of space that folds and swallows
a darkness that would devour anyone not as strong as we. — Sean Wilsey

Underneath the professional smiles there is a sadness in this country that is sunk so deep in the culture you can taste it in your morning Cheerios. — Sean Wilsey

It's been hard. My mother is proud of me, but her reaction swings wildly from day to day. I don't really take her point of view. I'm hard on her. And that's hard to read. — Sean Wilsey

There weren't a lot of people kind of manning the barricades in the sixties and looking up their genealogy. — Sean Wilsey

Kids are trusting and wise and I cannot think of a less useful combination to be born with. The wisdom lets children know who they are. And then the trust lets everyone else take that knowledge away. — Sean Wilsey