If there had been mile markers on the side of the road…

Whole scenes of your life slip away forever if you don't put them down in ink.

— Silas House

Writing is a supernatural thing.

— Silas House

“Every morning I was renewed, though. Air and light healed me, over and over. I got to where I depended on it. When I…

— Silas House

“He liked the splash of the river and the night things that gathered there: katydids and crickets, frogs and cicadas. At night the smell…

— Silas House

Sometimes just being still is the best thing you can do for yourself.

— Silas House

In New York, the buildings are like mountains in some ways, but they are only alive because of the people living in them. Real…

— Silas House

“Maybe all the trees were God.--A Parchment of Leaves”

— Silas House

“When Clay was little, newscasters boasted that the War on Poverty was being waged in those very mountains, but if the government had fought…

— Silas House

But you cannot know a place without loving it and hating it and feeling everything in between. You cannot understand a complex people by…

— Silas House

I always tell my writing students that every good piece of writing begins with both a mystery and a love story. And that every…

— Silas House

Since that night I have come to understand that sometimes the best families of all are those we create ourselves, the people we choose…

— Silas House

“I appricated that Nell was talking to me like a grown-up, but I had no idea what she meant. Still, I could see that…

— Silas House

Strange, how such a small realization can affect everyone's life forever. In movies there is always a carefully staged moment - a big crescendo…

— Silas House

“Easter, I don't want you to die and go to Heaven without having a little fun. The Lord forgives all things, honey. Live, sister!”

— Silas House

“Any two people can set and jaw all day long, but it takes two people right for each other to set together and just…

— Silas House