“Now courting’s a pleasure, and parting is grief, but a false-hearted lover is worse than a thief!” — Lee Smith Grief Copy Share Image
“...for in the world of the mad, time is not a continuum but a fluid, shifting place, relative to nothing.” — Lee Smith Time Copy Share Image
“My belief is that we have only one life, that this is all there is.” — Lee Smith Belief Copy Share Image
“For once I am living my life rather than watching it pass in review.” — Lee Smith Life Copy Share Image
“And I belive I am too, and if you think that is awful, then you dont understand a thing.” — Lee Smith Awful Copy Share Image
“Nothing is ever over, nothing is ever ended, and worlds open up within the world we know.” — Lee Smith Ended Copy Share Image
“If Strength comes through Suffering, why then I should be the strongest of all women, yet I am the weakest. God help… — Lee Smith Calling-on-god Copy Share Image
“Perhaps any life is such: different stories like different strands, each distinct in itself, each true, yet wound together to form one… — Lee Smith Life Copy Share Image
I like a book. I like to read for four hours at a stretch. I think very few are the young people… — Lee Smith Am Copy Share Image
I have always been interested in religion, especially in forms of ecstatic religion, where people are touched directly by the Spirit and… — Lee Smith Always Copy Share Image
I had always dreamed of living in Chapel Hill. When I was a college student at Hollins University in Virginia, I came… — Lee Smith Always Copy Share Image
“To much has happened too fast Dear Diary. What I want is for nothing to happen at all. I don't even want… — Lee Smith Burned out Copy Share Image
I am so sorry to see the state of reading in such decline. I think it says something really scary and terrible… — Lee Smith About Copy Share Image
“...for they was never a young man yet who don't want to go out and right a wrong, or kill a man,… — Lee Smith Coming of age Copy Share Image
Born Virginia Marshall but nicknamed Gig, my mother was a home economics teacher who had come all the way across the whole… — Lee Smith Across Copy Share Image
For many of us, especially women, the gap between what we want or need and what our society expects of us is… — Lee Smith Balance Copy Share Image
I think what happens to young writers is that they use up every life experience that they have had up to that… — Lee Smith Anything Copy Share Image
“It's true that when anyone dies, the other dead rise up abd die all over again.” — Lee Smith Dead Copy Share Image
“Pearl is the only person I ever knew who said things like “paths in life” out loud.” — Lee Smith Life Copy Share Image
“They say experience is the best teacher, but I'll be damned if I know what it teaches you.” — Lee Smith Best teacher Copy Share Image
“I want to be Tragedy, I want to be Juliet, I want to be Romeo. Thus with a kiss I die.” — Lee Smith Feel-everything Copy Share Image
“People can act so nice, bringing you food and all, but in the end they are nothing but buzzards. Waiting to pick… — Lee Smith Buzzards Copy Share Image
“Heyday, now that is a funny word ain't it? Part of a heyday is, you don't never know you are having yourself… — Lee Smith Aging Copy Share Image
I write about people in small towns; I don't write about people living in big cities. My kind of storytelling depends upon… — Lee Smith About Copy Share Image
“What I didn't understand, all those years when I was waiting for my life to start, was that it had already started.… — Lee Smith Life Copy Share Image
I was raised in a little church, the Grundy Methodist Church, that was very straight-laced, but I had a friend whose mother… — Lee Smith Church Copy Share Image
“Away acrost his valley he sees Black Mountain rising jagged to the sky...and if he looks to the left on past it,… — Lee Smith Mountains Copy Share Image
“Oh, if our children actually knew how much we love them, they’d never be able to hit any of these balls, they’d… — Lee Smith Child Copy Share Image
“But I would do it all again, every bit of it, I would lose him again just to have him again for… — Lee Smith Eternal love Copy Share Image
I think as the world changes, we have to keep up. We have to note what is happening, and I think writing… — Lee Smith About Copy Share Image
People are so busy positioning themselves before the screen and talking on the damn cellphones, communicating, that we're not reading, and in… — Lee Smith Before Copy Share Image
Certainly I was a very religious child, a deeply weird and very emotional child, an only child with lots of imaginary friends… — Lee Smith Active Copy Share Image
“In the parlance of today, our family was dysfunctional (is any family not?) I would never become an angel, or even a… — Lee Smith Dysfunctional Copy Share Image
