Top 76 Stacey D'erasmo Quotes
#1. The world of WONDERLAND is authentic, vibrant, and genuine. Stacey D'Erasmo explores the delight and terror of second chances. A great read!
Michael Stipe
#2. We were those girls, the artist's daughters, the mermaids, the ones with long, tangled hair who did what they wanted. Inside, always, we knew we were free." - Stacey D'Erasmo
Stacey D'Erasmo
#3. I'm embarrassed to reveal that I never went to CBGB's in the '80s. I was never cool enough to be a punk, and I wouldn't have had the stamina, or the discipline, for straight-edge.
Stacey D'Erasmo
#4. Fiction, at its best, is a radical act of intimacy. It seeks to join, to merge, to know deeply; and, as with intimacy, there is a way in which it cannot be faked.
Stacey D'Erasmo
#5. I never thought much about God, certainly never wondered whether God was thinking about me, until I fell in love with a Zen Buddhist priest.
Stacey D'Erasmo
#6. So, please people, if you know someone with AD(H)D, don't try to change that about them. Don't take that one skill away, or make them feel ashamed to use it. Sometimes procrastination is all they have in their little superhero tool belt!
Stacey Turis
#7. My books - I kid you not - are very often shelved between DeLillo and de Sade. Which not only completely cracks me up, but it seems like an encouraging message from the universe: between those two, there's a lot of wiggle room. I feel just fine there.
Stacey D'Erasmo
#8. Instead of someday meeting the woman he was meant to spend the rest of his life with, maybe he'd simply met her again.
Shannon Stacey
#9. Historians of European royalty have written of the king's 'two bodies' : one mortal and corrupt; the other divine, abstract and timeless.
Stacey D'Erasmo
#10. In my darker moments, I feel like the Queen of England, bound and gagged by reverence. Tin-crowned and irrelevant.
Stacey D'Erasmo
#11. In my family, we were on again off again Unitarians, partly because my father, raised Roman Catholic, had had enough of church.
Stacey D'Erasmo
#12. The much-lauded visual artist Roni Horn got her Master's in Sculpture from Yale in the Seventies, but in the course of her career she has moved, among other media, from watercolors to photographs to floor-sized installations and mats of poured gold.
Stacey D'Erasmo
#14. Prior to the institutionalization of standard time, clocks were set using local meridians or local mean time, and they varied widely.
Stacey D'Erasmo
#15. I write things in my house, and hopefully there's a reader out there who enjoys it and has an experience with it, but that's very different than a performer on stage, where there's an immediate dance with the audience. It's incredibly powerful.
Stacey D'Erasmo
#16. As readers, we sense when the game is being played for real and when something else is afoot: pride, showmanship, the pursuit of power, self-aggrandizement, revenge, making money. Not that there's anything wrong with any of that, but I dislike closing a book with the sense that I've been had.
Stacey D'Erasmo
#17. In each medium - popular music, literature, and visual art, respectively - the woman has broken form, shed a skin, with each phase of her career, whereas the man has returned to ever-deepening iterations of the sound or sentence or imagery with which he began.
Stacey D'Erasmo
#18. Readers, like writers, are essentially amoral. Arm's length will never do. We want to get closer.
Stacey D'Erasmo
#19. The knot of intimacy at the center of 'Ten Thousand Saints' is the friendship between Teddy McNicholas and Jude Keffy-Horn.
Stacey D'Erasmo
#20. There's always been sadness hidden at the core of Hitch, but it's never been big enough to taste. Occasionally, I'd get a whiff of it, salty on the wind, but it never pressed in between us like it does now, threatening to drown us both.
Stacey Jay
#21. I'm not a parent, but it seems to me the nature of parenting is contingent, full of unexpected challenges - which is one of the wonderful and amazing things about it.
Stacey D'Erasmo
#22. On a deeper level, there's a level of privacy that I need in order to work, and if there's been a time when there's been a lot of publicness in my life, it can be a little bit difficult to sort of rebuild that private space.
Stacey D'Erasmo
#23. I did say I don't feel as worthy as so many of the recipients ... He said he'd seen some of my work, which is amazing, and was a fan of Gavin and Stacey.
Sheridan Smith
#24. I don't go online when I'm writing - that's the devil's workshop - but in general, I'm on there as much as any other global citizen.
Stacey D'Erasmo
#25. you're so afraid of everyone pitying you that you'd rather nurture their contempt than accept their forgiveness"
- Stacey Michaels
Nicola Sinclair
#26. What interests me are the complexities and contradictions and struggles and joys of messy human beings.
Stacey D'Erasmo
#27. 'The Girls' tells the story of Rose and Ruby Darlen, who are not only literally but spiritually attached for eternity. Born joined at the head in 1974 to a feckless teenage mother who abandons them, and reared by a delightfully open-minded adoptive couple, the Darlen girls are darling girls, indeed.
Stacey D'Erasmo
#28. I was influenced by big, strong voices - writers like Elizabeth Bowen, Virginia Woolf, Jane Bowles; gay writers like Ed White, Michael Cunningham, Allen Hollinghurst; and contemporary lesbian writers, like Dorothy Allison.
Stacey D'Erasmo
#29. It's foolish to fight the bond between you. You'd be better off going with it and letting the panties drop where they may.
Stacey O'Neale
#30. Over the years, I'd seen all kinds of smiles from her. The kind designed to make all the blood drain from your head and gather behind your zipper ...
Stacey Kade
#31. A lot of first novels are coming-of-age stories. A lot are autobiographical.
Stacey D'Erasmo
#32. She said you were probably plastic and Uncle Kevin said he'd give you a feel and let her know and then Uncle Joe punched him in the shoulder and said the only thing he'd feel is his A-S-S getting kicked if he tried.
Shannon Stacey
#33. There is no such thing as a natural fit between form and content. Seamless elegance would be tantamount to erasure.
Stacey D'Erasmo
#34. 'The Girls,' by Lori Lansens, is a ballad, a melancholy song of two very strange, enchanted girls who live out their peculiar, ordinary lives in a rural corner of Canada.
Stacey D'Erasmo
#35. I whispered, taking advantage of her momentary distraction to try to adjust the front of my pants. If I had to run now, I'd be in big trouble.
Stacey Kade
#36. Shelley Jackson's 'Half Life' is the textual equivalent of an installation, a multivocal, polymorphous, dialogic, dystopian satire wrapped around a murder mystery wrapped around a bildungsroman.
Stacey D'Erasmo
#37. I leaned back to look at her, seeing only her, this girl who was Ally but also Alona, and who bore a resemblance to a friend i'd once had but was someone new. Someone i could live without, but didn't want to
Stacey Kade
#38. Now when you say staring, are you including yourself in this assessment? I recall you taking in the view on several occasions."
"For the last time, I was not staring at you." I was a terrible liar. "Now, if you're done, I'd like to finish asking my question.
Stacey O'Neale
#39. From what I'd witnessed, Alona Dare was single minded, determined, and ruthless. If high school was a zoo, she was the lioness running the hunt on the hapless tourists who'd wandered into the wrong enclosure.
Stacey Kade
#40. All writers are magpies, right? We're always stealing bits from different places and then weaving them into our little nest.
Stacey D'Erasmo
#41. Big Ma didn't need to say any more and she didn't. T.J. was far from her favorite person and it was quite obvious that Stacey and I owed our good fortune entirely to T.J.'s obnoxious personality.
Mildred D. Taylor
#42. If we are indeed nostalgic for the weight of clock time, it is worth remembering that the standardized time that most of us know has only been around since the mid-nineteenth century. It was invented for the railroads.
Stacey D'Erasmo
#43. Visibility is a tricky thing; is someone visible when you can point her out in a crowd, or when you understand what her life feels like to her?
Stacey D'Erasmo
#44. As lightly toned by reality as the women on 'Sex and the City,' the bold, soigne characters on 'The L Word' suggest that L is also for limerence, that rapturous state of early love when the entire world is glowing and delectable.
Stacey D'Erasmo
#45. What is the distance between here and there, between now and then, between right and wrong? In Greg Baxter's pellucid first novel, 'The Apartment,' it may be simply the length of a day - but a day in which one travels surprisingly far, literally and figuratively.
Stacey D'Erasmo
#46. The songs in 'Wonderland' don't have a melodic life for me - I'm not a musical person - but they have an emotional life, an emotional echo perhaps.
Stacey D'Erasmo
#47. Royalty mostly seem like members of some anachronistic faith, like the Amish, peculiar in gilded buggies.
Stacey D'Erasmo
#48. My mouth fell open, and I swear, I got chills. He'd actually done it. He'd told his mom no. Somewhere along the line, Will Killian had grown a mother-proof spine.
Stacey Kade
#49. The deeper changes wrought by the end of a particular outlaw culture: something will come of that ... and it won't be what we expect.
Stacey D'Erasmo
#50. That feeling of being part of a group moving together is very powerful. It feels like it opens up a zone of possibility, a place for another self to form, also a place for a new world to form.
Stacey D'Erasmo
#52. The second time is the one we remember, where memory begins. Putting the moments in order is only half the story. What matters is the weight of the moments as they accumulate.
Stacey D'Erasmo
#53. A lot of times, really wonderful things that have come my way have come basically out of the blue.
Stacey D'Erasmo
#54. Stacey: "I'm surprised you haven't thrown me out."
Comfort: "At your current weight, I'd need some sort of catapult.
Kristin Hannah
#55. In 1976, divorce could still raise eyebrows, as could a woman's decision not to have children. Dyslexia wasn't as commonly recognized then, and thus not treated as it is today.
Stacey D'Erasmo
#56. As for me, I've been in love with women and men. I get how people fall in love with different kinds of people, but to fall in love with God: I didn't get that.
Stacey D'Erasmo
#57. One of the first times that I went into a book store and saw a bunch of my books, my impulse was to put them all under my coat and run away so that no one else could see them, even though, of course, I wanted everyone to see them.
Stacey D'Erasmo
#58. He could do this. He'd survived boot camp. He'd survived combat and the harsh weather of Afghanistan. He could survive broccoli. Probably.
Shannon Stacey
#59. I was working up the courage to knock." "I don't look that bad in the morning." "It's pretty early. I wasn't sure you'd be up.
Shannon Stacey
#60. I take a deep breath and calm my face, trying as best as I can to put yearning into my eyes. It's not that hard. Green dick or not, I'd hit that...if I made absolutely any effort to hit anything.
Stacey Wallace Benefiel
#61. I'd ended up sprawled across his chest, which was actually broader than it looked. Navy blue is a slimming colour, I guess.
Stacey Kade
#62. I don't know if my faith stems from what I'd call unconditional love, but the energy certainly feels boundless.
Stacey D'Erasmo
#63. Reading 'The Third Sex' feels a bit like flying in a veering helicopter over a rain forest that is disappearing before one's eyes.
Stacey D'Erasmo
#64. I would dream of being a pro skater, but I never dreamt I'd be discovered by Lance Mountain and Stacey Peralta, who were two major heroes of mine, and be asked to skate for that team and be a part of their company.
Mike Vallely
#65. Of course, a secret is no good if it doesn't need to be a secret.
Stacey D'Erasmo
#66. People did crazy things for love. And being responsible for someone else's feelings like that felt powerful and terrifying. As if I'd been given some delicate and fragile object to carry over rocky and uneven terrain with shaky hands.
Stacey Kade
#67. A bit of a theory, more a corner of the eye noticing than an airtight argument: in the course of long artistic careers, women are more likely than men to change form and style, Proteus-like.
Stacey D'Erasmo
#68. For the Supreme Court, the right for everyone to say 'I do' is where the story ends, but for artists, it's where the story just starts to get interesting.
Stacey D'Erasmo
#69. I'm a huge fan of San Francisco. And I was out here for a couple years in the mid-'90s when I was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford.
Stacey D'Erasmo
#70. A touring band is a family and a workplace at the same time, and you're living with people you didn't necessarily choose every day for up to a year.
Stacey D'Erasmo
#71. Music is quicksilver, gossamer; careers are measured in butterfly lifetimes.
Stacey D'Erasmo
#72. There are more clocks than ever - clocks on computers, on cell phones, on televisions, on any screen available, telling time to the digital second - but they all seem to matter less.
Stacey D'Erasmo
#73. One of the many pleasures of 'Versailles' is the way in which it seems to emanate not only from the vexed inner being of Marie Antoinette but from the interstices between what we imagine of her and what she was.
Stacey D'Erasmo
#74. The spirits of Havelock Ellis, Magnus Hirschfeld and Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebbing waft through the text to lend 'The Third Sex' an air of scientific authority.
Stacey D'Erasmo
#75. While 'A Blessed Child' might have been a more tough-minded book had Ullmann thrown a spanner into the works, it's not hard to understand her decision to keep things going.
Stacey D'Erasmo
#76. Sometimes you can't stand the sound of her voice and other times you wonder how you'd even breathe if she wasn't there. That's marriage, and she'll feel the same way.
Shannon Stacey
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