“Jenny looked, as usual, elegant and as fine-drawn as a young doe, but oddly muted, as if she had been outlined in… — Anne Rivers Siddons Characters Copy Share Image
“(the villa) It's beautiful too, all hot pinks and reds, and rocks and sand and blinding blue and white.” — Anne Rivers Siddons Beautiful Copy Share Image
“But there sometimes comes a moment, a small, silent white explosion of awareness.” — Anne Rivers Siddons Awareness Copy Share Image
“...and I thought I might take him home and see how he works. It's really neat the way all those little bone… — Anne Rivers Siddons Copy Share Image
I think every creative impulse that a working writer, or artist of any sort has, comes out of that dark old country… — Anne Rivers Siddons Art Copy Share Image
“The room was bright and white and still and silent, but soundless sound roared and howled in it.” — Anne Rivers Siddons Copy Share Image
“Be careful who you love. They'll be part of you always. Even after the love is long dead, the fuckers'll be part… — Anne Rivers Siddons Copy Share Image
“At the dune line, just before the whispering stands of sea oats and dune grass began, the sand was as damp and… — Anne Rivers Siddons Copy Share Image
I could run nearly naked on a hot, windy beach and plunge without care into a running diamond sea; roll on the… — Anne Rivers Siddons Copy Share Image
Somebody said writing is easy, you just sit down at your typewriter and open a vein. It depends on the book. Some,… — Anne Rivers Siddons Book Copy Share Image
I don't think you ever think of a big city as sweet or community, but there are cities that I think of… — Anne Rivers Siddons Big cities Copy Share Image
“Peter and I danced in bare feet in the cold wet undergrowth while the moon poured its wild old silver down on… — Anne Rivers Siddons Bare feet Copy Share Image
It's unimaginable to me that I wouldn't write, but it's very imaginable that I won't write for a little while. — Anne Rivers Siddons Imaginable Copy Share Image
I have a theory that Southern madhouses are full of gifted women who were stifled. — Anne Rivers Siddons Feminism Copy Share Image
“Forsythia that I thought had been dozed into oblivion sprang up and misted the foundations with lemon icing I yearn for all… — Anne Rivers Siddons Copy Share Image
“...leaving the air crystal and sweet and the dusty, used leaves sparkling. The lake surface was a diamond-dusted, dancing indigo...” — Anne Rivers Siddons Flower Copy Share Image
“You wouldn't maintain a house like that' you'd feet it and water it. You'd have to give it nourishment and love it… — Anne Rivers Siddons Copy Share Image
“On a night of icy silver radiance, when the very sea and stars seemed on fire with light.” — Anne Rivers Siddons Astronomy Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most important thing we can ever do in our lives is find a way to keep the wild-both the wild… — Anne Rivers Siddons Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I could scarcely breathe with the knowledge that for the rest of my life, whenever we wanted, Peter and I could… — Anne Rivers Siddons Copy Share Image
I don't know if I would do sequels. I almost feel like when I'm done with them, they're going to have to… — Anne Rivers Siddons Copy Share Image