Winesburg Quotes

#1. so conspicuous was his abhorrence of "rebellious insolence" that he might have been enunciating the name of a menace resolved to undermine not just Winesburg, Ohio, but the great republic itself.

Philip Roth

#2. Many people must live and die alone, even in Winesburg.

Sherwood Anderson

#3. In the main street of Winesburg crowds filled the stores and sidewalks. Night came on, horses whinnied, the clerks in stores ran madly about, children became lost and cried lustily, an American town worked terribly at the task of amusing itself.

Sherwood Anderson

#4. I think the book that really kind of woke me up a little bit when I was starting to write was 'Winesburg, Ohio' by Sherwood Anderson. I was in grad school at Brown, going for an M.A. in creative writing. Those stories seemed to me to be doing away with pretty writing.

Tom Drury

#5. They made it to the middle class, my dad working as a bartender and my mother as a cashier and a maid. I didn't inherit any money from them. But I inherited something far better - the real opportunity to accomplish my dreams.

Marco Rubio

#6. I don't know how to talk to people. Social rules are difficult to understand as they keep changing. I never know what people expect from me.

Tina J. Richardson

#7. I think poetry can help children deal with the other subjects on the curriculum by enabling them to see a subject in a new way.

Carol Ann Duffy

#8. Perfect purity is possible if you turn your life into a line of poetry written with a splash of blood.

Yukio Mishima

#9. Don't talk about it - you'll talk it away. Let the ideas flow from your mind to the page without exposing them to air. Especially hot air.

Tom Robbins

#10. If Vulcans had a church, they'd be Catholics.

John C. Wright