Autobiography Quote by Dionne Brand Download Open image ““The sea sounded like a thousand secrets, all whispered at the same time.”” — Dionne Brand ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Autobiography Dionne-brand Writing
“I heard silence, silence infinite as the bottom of the ocean, a silence that sealed.” — Anne Spollen Copy Share Image
“We all have a sea inside us; can you hear it? Can you hear the ocean roaring?” — Dianna Hardy Copy Share Image
“…the ocean just as still, between you and me like a reminder Of hundred unspoken memories and of the thousands yet to come...” — TheLoneWanderer Copy Share Image
“For me, the sea has always been a confidant, a friend absorbing all it is told and never revealing those secrets; always giving the… — Ernesto "Che" Guevara Copy Share Image
“The beauty of the sea is that it never shows any weakness and never tires of the countless souls that unleash their broken voices… — Zeina Kassem Copy Share Image
“Sometimes she woke up speaking his name. Sometimes she wondered how it were possible to be so far from the sea and still feel… — Jojo Moyes Copy Share Image
“Her voice was caught in the shell of my ear, as if it were the ocean.” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Finally he hears something: he thinks it is the ebb and flow of the sea, the water crashing back into the abyss of salt.” — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
“My thoughts, my dreams, they had been nothing in comparison. They were a single drop of water, and this, the whole sea.” — J.M. Miller Copy Share Image
“…And the sound of the sea, like the wild-animal breath of the world itself, frightened them as it gasped and died at their feet.” — Leonardo Sciascia Copy Share Image
“For an hour, till greyness covered all, the water shone like milk and mother-of-pearl. The sea breathed quietly, like a sleeping dog.” — J.A. Baker Copy Share Image
If I see someone I see the ghost of them, the air around them, and where they’ve been. If I see a city I… — Dionne Brand Copy Share Image
I felt the unordinary romance of / women who love women for the first time. — Dionne Brand Copy Share Image
People here believe in uncontrollable passion, in mad rages, and in the brusque inevitability of death. — Dionne Brand Copy Share Image
“..would I have had a different life failing this embrace with broken things, iridescent veins, ecstatic bullets, small cracks in the brain, would I… — Dionne Brand Copy Share Image
“And on the sidewalks, after they've emerged from the stations, after being sandpapered by the jostling and scraping that a city like this does, all the lives they've hoarded, all the ghosts they've carried, all the inversions they've made for protection, all the scars and marks and records for recognition - the whole heterogeneous baggage falls out with each step… — Dionne Brand Copy Share
“Angie was a border crosser, a wetback, a worker in the immigrant sweatshop they call this city. On days like this I understand her like a woman instead of a child. Everybody thought she was a whore. She wasn’t. She tried to step across the border of who she was and who she might be. They wouldn’t let her. She… — Dionne Brand Copy Share
“There were Italian neighbourhood and Vietnamese neighbourhoods in this city; there are Chinese ones and Ukrainian ones and Pakistani ones and Korean ones and African ones. Name a region on the planet and there's someone from there, here. All of them sit on Ojibway land, but hardly any of them know it or care because that genealogy is wilfully untraceable… — Dionne Brand Copy Share
“I run each morning, two, three, sometimes four kilometers. Part of March, all of April, all of May. I can’t run five. I am… — Dionne Brand Copy Share Image
“It is not the job of writers to life our spirits. Books simply do what they do. They sometimes confirm the capricious drama of… — Dionne Brand Copy Share Image
I think anything that anyone writes thats any good is going to have a lot of autobiography. — Stephen Adly Guirgis Copy Share Image
“I am not and autobiographical writer--one can't be without a solid and explicable self--and read all autobiographical writers with the same curiosity. What kind… — Yiyun Li Copy Share Image
“Someday, I want to write an unauthorized autobiography of myself.” — David McMullen-Sullivan Copy Share Image
“As well as writing, 2004 saw my first attempt at wine making: the elixir of life. Unfortunately, my effort tasted more like the elixir… — Craig Briggs Copy Share Image
Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none in all the literature of the world — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't really think of my essays as being about myself. I know it sounds insane, but I just don't think of them as… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
The way I would live my life is: never do something in real life that I would not want to write about in my… — Siddharth Katragadda Copy Share Image
biography cannot be separated from autobiography: that is, the life written about is inextricably entangled with the life of the biographer. — Linda Simon Copy Share Image
I think I'm like most novelists in that my books have gotten farther and farther away from autobiography the longer I've been writing them. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
If you wish to understand me at all (and to write an autobiography is only to open a window into one's heart) you must… — Nellie Melba Copy Share Image
