Amy Hill Hearth

“Writers, naturally, dream of becoming authors. Authors dream of writing a bestseller. Bestselling authors want to write more bestsellers. And everyone hopes…

— Amy Hill Hearth

There's an old Southern saying that if you're worried about your weight, clothes, or getting old, then you don't have any real…

— Amy Hill Hearth

“Life is short, and it's up to you to make it sweet. Sarah L. (Sadie) Delany”

— Amy Hill Hearth

“A middle-aged mother in a little town called Naples has been named Miss Dreamsville.”

— Amy Hill Hearth

Maybe freedom means defining yourself any way you want to be.

— Amy Hill Hearth

“It was terrifying, liberating, and risky. But one day I woke up and decided to try it." (On writing her first novel,…

— Amy Hill Hearth

“When people ask me how we've lived past one hundred, I say, 'Honey, we never married. We never had husbands to worry…

— Amy Hill Hearth

“Their story, as the Delany sisters like to say, is not meant as "black" or "women's" history, but American history. It belongs…

— Amy Hill Hearth

How hard it must be to keep fighting for a dream when that dream is probably a mirage.

— Amy Hill Hearth

...Mama used to say that when you don't know what to do, do nothing. She meant you can try too hard to…

— Amy Hill Hearth

“...I could see the genius in allowing future to evolve. You could create momentum. You could launch something and see where it…

— Amy Hill Hearth

“I didn't want my epitaph to be "She Played It Safe.”

— Amy Hill Hearth

When you're in a train and it breaks down, well, there you is. But when you're in a plane and it breaks…

— Amy Hill Hearth

“...one person can come along and change your life, and that being a misfit, as I was, doesn't mean you won't find…

— Amy Hill Hearth