Quote by Stephen Wright

“I told you it was a backwoods. They probably still practice corn sacrifice.”

— Laurie R. King

“There was the sky, filled with flat-topped clouds, cruising like a fleet of anvils across the blue. George”

— Paul Harding

“overgrown fields, obviously abandoned. We must be getting close to the next village, which was just as well. The sun was approaching the horizon,…

— Kiran Millwood Hargrave

“It was a gorgeous end-of-summer-just-starting-to-befall day. The trees swayed in the breeze. The sky was the color of cornflowers.”

— Jacqueline Davies

“Still, we made it back to the corn mill, and even though it felt like a dwarf with a chisel had taken up permanent…

— Rachel Hawkins

“Scattered with poppies, the golden-green waves of the cornfields faded. The red sun seemed to tip one end of a pair of scales below…

— Patrick Leigh Fermor

“They were in a trench sliding through a forest of corn. Machine stood over the rows, black girders that arced in the sky like…

— Joe Hill

“In time I told Clarissa the difficulties we had had escaping from the war zone. She warmed up to me as we worked together…

— Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One

“With a little gasp he sees himself as merely a leaf blown by the wind through the streets of his village. He knows that…

— Sherwood Anderson

“irregularly as though it were farm land.”

— William L. Shirer

“That day of battle in the dusty heat We lay and heard the bullets swish and sing Like scythes amid the over-ripened wheat, And…

— John McCrae

“She told me about rolling hills covered with cornfields and treeless miles of land without water. I dreamt of cornfields dotted with yellow rosebushes”

— A. LaFaye