Books Quote by Carol Anshaw

Aimee Parkison offers a distinct new voice to contemporary fiction. Her seductive stories explore childhood as a realm of sorrows, and reveal the afflictions…

— Carol Anshaw

It's easy now, now that it's a story. When you were going through it, it was life. Always much harder to get the plot…

— Carol Anshaw

“...religions all have the same timeline...First the people feel the need to worship something. The sun or the giant corn of ear. That's the…

— Carol Anshaw

“She shared the curse of many artists—that praise beaded up and rolled off her while criticism stuck like glue, glue embedded with ground glass.”

— Carol Anshaw

“Storming was one of her main modes of transportation." In reference to teenager Heather in "Carry The One”

— Carol Anshaw

“But they were not friends. They were here to keep each other from spinning off alone into the dark matter of the universe.”

— Carol Anshaw

Some moments supersaturate, take on almost more than one tiny fragment of time can hold. How...can you hold this sort of memory of someone…

— Carol Anshaw

I have never been on the receiving end of a hate crime, or even a disparaging remark to my face.

— Carol Anshaw

When I started, there was more of a cultural assumption that many readers would find gay characters irrelevant or repugnant.

— Carol Anshaw

“She pitied everyone who didn't have a sister.”

— Carol Anshaw

“She looked around the table and saw each of them as they looked that night...All of them in their last hours of making mistakes…

— Carol Anshaw

“But for the most part, she was the Maude who Alice would have said she wanted all along. But instead of seeming more reasonable,…

— Carol Anshaw