Growth Quote by Lauren Slater

To fly up to the sky and watch the earth is beautiful; to fly down to the earth and watch the sky is even…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Look around you...Feel the wind, smell the air. Listen to the birds and watch the sky. Tell me what's happening in the wide world.

— Nancy Farmer

“I go above deck to watch the sky darken into twilight. It helps me remember that this strange place is still the earth, and…

— Ayana Mathis

“We watch the sky, we watch it alive and we watch it die, looking for signs. We live like wind, with hope in wings…

— Anthony Liccione

“They cleared swiftly, dramatically, like a stage set or a movie; we went from black to stunning blue, the day emerging at once wet…

— Lauren Slater

Everyone knows that a lot of memoirs have made-up scenes; it's obvious. And everyone knows that half the time at least fictions contain literal…

— Lauren Slater

“Finally the dawn came, the sky fringed with pink, and the sun bright as a coin in a spill of rising red.”

— Lauren Slater

“I used to teach at an abused children's home. I told the kids, "You all have a manure pile of memories. Nothing you can…

— Rebecca O'Donnell

“FROM a six-year-old: Told by a well-meaning friend, ‘Alex, do you know what the one thing is that the more you give, the more…

— Susan Hamilton

Memoirs are going to be problematic sells for a while, though, because even if memoir means "based in memory," right now, in the collective…

— Debra Monroe

“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

“When I first met Billy I thought about sucking his eyes right out of their sockets. They’re like turquoise gum drops.”

— Jo Treggiari