Anne Rivers Siddons
Anne Rivers Siddons
Anne Rivers Siddonsis an American novelist who writes stories set in the southern United States...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth9 January 1936
CountryUnited States of America
spring rain sea
Walter loves the sea, and I need it in some elemental way that I cannot even come close to verbalizing. I become dim and shriveled somehow at my very core if I am away from the sea too long. When I return to it I seem to fill up and overflow with it, soaking in the vast, sighing wetness of it like a parched vine in a long, soft spring rain.
southern theory gifted
I have a theory that Southern madhouses are full of gifted women who were stifled.
running beach sea
I could run nearly naked on a hot, windy beach and plunge without care into a running diamond sea; roll on the sand and fling my arms wide to the sun and still be what I was...young.
laughter water tiny
Laughter nibbled at my lips like tiny fish in warm water.
stars drinking eye
I felt tears sting into my eyes, and took a deep swallow of the first champagne I had ever tasted, remembering that I had read somewhere that the monk who invented it said, on first tasting it, 'It is like drinking stars'.
thinking just-being serious
I think we all get too caught up in doing instead of just being sometimes.
life important way
Perhaps the most important thing we can ever do in our lives is find a way to keep the wild-both the wild inside and the wild outside us-and tap into it.
writing littles unimaginable
It's unimaginable to me that I wouldn't write, but it's very imaginable that I won't write for a little while.
book writing typewriters
Somebody said writing is easy, you just sit down at your typewriter and open a vein. It depends on the book. Some, I have to do quite a lot of research, which I like. Others are much closer to me.
sweet thinking cities
I don't think you ever think of a big city as sweet or community, but there are cities that I think of as charming and particular and interesting cities. I live in one now, Charleston.
giving
... life can only be kept by giving it away. But then it will bloom.
dream country creativity
I think every creative impulse that a working writer, or artist of any sort has, comes out of that dark old country where dreams come from.
friends real light
A real friendship is a light thing. A real friend holds you loosely.
done way feels
I don't know if I would do sequels. I almost feel like when I'm done with them, they're going to have to find their own way.