Bembenek Family Quotes & Sayings

For almost every novel I've written, I've read the daily newspaper of the time almost as if it were my current subscription. For 'Two Moons,' which was set in 1877, I think I read just about every day of the 'Washington Evening Star' for that year. For 'Henry and Clara,' I read the 'Albany Evening Journal' of the time. — Thomas Mallon

The more independent you want to be, the more generous you must be with yourself as a woman. — Diane Von Furstenberg

Nonsense is to sense, as shade to light; it heightens effect. — Arthur Frederick Saunders

What were the living dead, Wolgast thought, but a metaphor for the misbegotten march of middle age? — Justin Cronin

I realize that people need something to believe in. — Patti Smith

Sometimes you read a passage by a great writer, and you know what he says and how he says it will always be, for you, the only possible way it could be. Less often a painter will describe an event in a way that fits into your interpretation of that event so perfectly that it becomes the event itself. — Vincent Price

I didn't like school. I was pretty much daydreaming all the time. I would be in the back of the class writing down random stories and stuff that would have nothing to do with school. I only lasted two years in high school before I moved out to L.A. — Charlie McDermott

I missed you even when I was with you. That's been my problem. I miss what I already have, and I surround myself with things that are missing. — Jonathan Safran Foer